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PAGE 

Foreword 5 

Officers and Committees 7 

Officers of the Pageant 13 

The Words of the Pageant 15 

The Constitution of the United States. 63 

Philadelphia in the War of 1812 69 

"Belmont" 81 

Conveners of the Sewing Parties 84 




Wf^t ^istodcal pageant of 1912 

JN AMERICAN CITY, which is crowded with 
memories of Penn, and Franklin, of Robert Mor- 
ris, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, James Wilson, 
Lafayette and Washington, deserves to have its 
history often told to itself and to the world. Too 
infrequently do we pause to consider the record 
of a neighborhood which for interest and impor- 
tance has no peer upon our continent. Four years 
ago the principal episodes in its life were set forth in the form 
of an Historical Pageant, which proceeded along the city's lead- 
ing highv/ay for a distance of four miles. It was viewed by a 
multitude of people — as many as could find space to see from 
pavement, stand or v/indow, on each side of the street from the 
starting to the dismissing point. Vast labor and a vast sum of 
m.oney were expended to secure artistic excellence and historical 
truth in the representation. 

But all passed and was gone. Only the memory of the 
event remains. So much appreciation did our pageant win, that 
I was encouraged to form an association, and with the aid of the 
Hon. John E. Reyburn, then the Mayor of the city, we obtained 
a charter under the state laws. For two summers since, I have 
viewed and studied the famous historical pageants of England 
and the time has come, in 1912, in the administration of Mr. 
Reyburn's successor. Mayor Blankenburg, for another lesson in 
the history of this fine old American community. This time, I 
have v/ished to cast the principal episodes in the city's annals in 
the form of a great play on the greensward among the foliage, 
and to repeat it day by day so that all that has been done for 
months and years, by way of preparation shall not vanish in one 



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passing view. No more lovely field will soon be found for pag- 
eantry than that in Philadelphia's splendid park at the "Belmont" 
of Judge Peters, facing the Schuylkill, as it wends its way to the 
sea, with the city beyond rearing its walls and spires on the dis- 
tant plain which, when many of the figures of the pageant sur- 
veyed the scene, was an open space across which one might often 
catch a glimpse of the shipping on the Delaware. 

With this foreword, those of us with whom this work has 
been the breath and the being for so many months, commit these 
pictures of the old city to the Philadelphia of this day and to her 
many friendly guests. 

ELLIS PAXSON OBERHOLTZER 




MEMBERS OF THE HISTORICAL PAGEANT COMMITTEES 

I Alba B. Johnson (Photograph by i\vans) 

2 George W. Elkins ( Pliotograph by Evans) 

3 John Wanamaker (Photograpli by Gutekunst) 
4 James McCrea (Photograph by Evans) 

5 George F. Baer ( Photograpli by Gutekunst) 
6 Hampton L. Carson 

7 Samuel T. Bodine ( Photograph by Evans) 

8 Daniel Baugh (Photograph by Evans) 




MEMBERS OF THE HISTORICAL PAGEANT COMMITTEES 

I John E. Reyburn ( l'li(it(itirai)li liy Gutekunst) 

2 Samuel W. Pennypacker (Photograph by Evans) 

5 Ernest L. Tustin (Photograph by Evans) 
4 Cyrus H. K. Curtis ( Photograph by Evans) 

5 Howard B. French (Photograph by Evans) 
6 Joseph B. McCall (I'hotograph 1)y Evans) 

7 Edward B. Smith (Photograph l)y Gutekunst) 
8 J. Howell Cummings 



Officers and Committees 



0iiittxi anb Committees 



PRESIDENT 

HON. RUDOLPH BLANKENBURO 
MAYOR OF PHILADELPHIA 



VICE-PRESIDENTS 



JOHN E. REYBURN 

JOHN WEAVER 

CHARLES F. WARWICK 

EDWIN S. STUART 

SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER 

DANIEL BAUGH 

A. LOUDEN SNOWDEN 

THOMAS DOLAN 

EDGAR F. SMITH 

JAMES McCREA 

E. T. STOTESBURY 

WILLIAM POTTER 

JOHN WANAMAKER 



CHARLEMAGNE TOWER 
CYRUS H. K. CURTIS 
CHARLES C. HARRISON 
GEORGE BURNHAM, JR. 
W. W. KEEN 
HAMPTON L. CARSON 
GEORGE F. BAER 
JOHN CADWALADER 
WILLIAM T. TILDEN 
ISAAC H. CLOTHIER 
RUSSELL H. CONWELL 
ALEXANDER VAN RENSSELAER 



TREASURER 

CHARLES FRANCIS JENKINS 

SECRETARY 

ELLIS PAXSON OBERHOLTZER 



GENERAL COMMITTEE 



FINLEY ACKER 
THOMAS F. ARMSTRONG 
A. LINCOLN ACKER 
JOHN ASHHURST 
BERNARD ASHBY 
F. WAYLAND AYER 

MIERS BUSCH 

D. KNICKERBACKER BOYD 
SAMUEL BELL, JR. 
CYRUS BORGNER 

JOHN C. BELL 
ALFRED E. BURK 
MAJOR T. T. BRAZIER 
MARTIN G. BRUMBAUGH 
DANIEL BAUGH 
SAMUEL T. BODINE 
GEORGE F. BAER 
RALPH BLUM 
CHARLES D. BARNEY 
F. H. BETHELL 
W. ATLEE BURPEE 

E. J. BERLET 
DIMNER BEEBER 



J. CLIFTON BUCK 
JOHN BURT 
GEORGE W. BOYD 
GEORGE BURNHAM, JR. 
C. C. A. BALDI 
HARRY A. BERWIND 
R. R. BOGGS 

MORRIS L. CLOTHIER 
CYRUS H. K. CURTIS 
MORRIS L. COOKE 
B. FRANK CLAPP 
GEORGE WENTWORTH CARR 
WILLIAM M. COATES 
J. H. CARSTAIRS 
JOHN CADWALADER 
J. HOWELL CUMMINGS 
RUSSELL H. CONWELL 
ISAAC H. CLOTHIER 
BISHOP L. J. COPPIN 
HAMPTON L. CARSON 
EDWARD P. CHEYNEY 
ANDREW WRIGHT CRAWFORD 
CHARLES HEBER CLARK 



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GENERAL COMMITTEE— Continued 



G. W. CHAPIN 
GORDON S. CARRIGAN 
HUGH A. CLARKE 
WILLIAM J. CAMPBELL 

THOMAS DOLAN 
ROBERT D. DRIPP3 
CHARLES E. DANA 
FRANK MILES DAY 
THOMAS F. DURHAM 
THOMAS DEVLIN 
HENRY DETREUX 
A. F. DAIX, JR. 
MURRELL DOBBINS 

GEORGE W. ELKINS 
BURD P. EVANS 
JAMES ELVERSON 
W. J. ELDRIDGE 
WILSON EYRE 

R. Y. FILBERT 
NATHAN T. FOLWELL 
HOWARD B. FRENCH 
CYRUS D. FOSS, JR. 
J. W. FLANAGAN 
W. W. FRY 
S. S. FELS 
GEORGE H. FRAZIER 

ELLIS A. GIMBEL 

JOHN GRIBBEL 

WILLIAM A. GLASGOW, JR. 

JOHN MARSHALL GEST 

GEORGE GIBBS 

ALFRED GRATZ 

JOHN P. GREEN 

FRANK HARDART 

M. F. HANSON 

JOHN C. HUMPHREYS 

CLEMENT R. HOOPES 

VICTOR HAMILTON 

JOSEPH V(/. HOLTON 

WILLIAM H. HANSELL 

A. G. HETHERINGTON 

CHARLES E. HIRES 

J. WALLACE HALLOWELL 

CHARLES H. HARDING 

THOMAS SKELTON HARRISON 

ELI B. HALLOWELL 

JOHN STORY JENKS 
J. R. JONES 
CHARLES F. JENKINS 
MORRIS JASTROW, JR. 
JOHN W. JORDAN 
GEORGE W. JACOBS 
ALBA B. JOHNSON 

RABBI J. KRAUSKOPF 
GEORGE W. KENDRICK, JR. 
ALBERT KELSEY 



GEORGE W. KUCXER 
N. B. KELLY 
A. C. KEELEY 
SYDNEY W. KEITH 
CHARLES O. KRUGER 
ALBERT KAISER 

SAMUEL D. LIT 
HERMAN LOEB 
LEWIS LUKES 
JOHN LUCAS 
E. O. LEWIS 
WILLIAM S. LLOYD 
DAVID H. LANE 
M. D. LEARNED 

E. J. LAFFERTY 

GENERAL EDWARD MORRELL 
JAMES McCREA 
JOSEPH B. McCALL 
THOMAS MARTINDALE 
J. HAMPTON MOORE 
LAURENCE McCORMICK 

F. S. McILHENNY 

J. WILLIS MARTIN 
GEORGE D. McCREARY 
JAMES P. McNICHOL 
GEORGE McCURDY 
RANDAL MORGAN 
ALBERT E. McKINLEY 

D. J. McCRUDDEN 
CLARENCE V. McCOOL 
LESLIE W. MILLER 
JOHN BACH McMASTER 
JAMES MacALISTER 
THOMAS L. MONTGOMERY 
W. L. McLEAN 

E. SPENCER MILLER 
GLENN C. MEAD 

H. S. MORRIS 

JOHN H. McFADDEN 

ROBERT L. MONTGOMERY 

F. A. MacBRIDE 

GEORGE W. NORRIS 
JOSEPH S. NEFF 
WILLIATyI R. NICHOLSON 
M. W. NEWTON 
THOMAS T. NELSON 

ELLIS PAXSON OBERHOLTZER 
GEORGE W. OCHS 
W. B. OLIVER 

ELI KIRK PRICE 
GEORGE D. PORTER 
HAROLD PEIRCE 
JAMES POLLOCK 
SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER 
C. S. W. PACKARD 
GENERAL W. G. PRICE 
WILLIAM PERRINE 
LINCOLN K. PASSMORi 




MEMBERS OF THE HISTORICAL PAGEANT COMMITTEES 

I Martin G. Brumbaugh ( Pliotciy;raph by Gutekunst) 

2 Charles F. Jenkins (Photograph ])y Phillips) 

3 A. G. Hetherington (Photograph by Evans) 
4 Miers Busch (Photograph by Evans) 5 Thomas L. Montgomery 

6 Theodore C. Search 

7 George Burnham, Jr. (Photograph by Gutekunst) 

8 Morris Jastrow, Jr. (Photograph by Gutekunst) 




MEMBERS OF THE HISTORICAL PAGEANT COMMITTEES 

I Marion D. Learned ( r'hot(i^naph by Gutckunsl) 

2 John W.Jordan (Photograph by Evans) 

3 J. Hampton Moore ( Pliotogra])li by Gutekunst) 
4 Henry Detreux 

5 Charles Heber Clark (Photograph by Gutekunst) 

6 Charles F. Warwick (Photograph by Gutekunst) 
7 E.J. Berlet (Photo-rapli l)y Phillips) 

8 General W. G. Price (Photograph by Evans) 
9 C. W. Summerfield 



Officers and Committees 



GENERAL COMMITTEE— Continued 



FRANCIS B. REEVES 

FRANK M. RITER 

WALTER E. REX 

JOHN E. REYBURN 

JOSEPH G. ROSENGARTEN 

J. P. REMINGTON 

HARRY RANSLEY 

HENRY STARR RICHARDSON 

E. T. STOTESBURY 
EDGAR F. SMITH 
SAMUEL SNELLENBURG 
COLEMAN SELLERS 
EDWARD B. SMITH 

C. W. SUMMERFIELD 
H. A. SHAW 

THEODORE C. SEARCH 
JOHN B. SIMPSON 
FRANK SCHOBLE 

F. H. STRAWBRIDGE 
CHARLES H. STEPHENS 
FELIX E. SCHELLING 

WILLIAM T. TILDEN 
M. HAMPTON TODD 
ERNEST L. TUSTIN 
CHARLEMAGNE TOWER 
JOHN THOMSON 
JOHN E. D. TRASK 
WILLIAM R. TUCKER 



ALEXANDER VAN RENSSELAER 

ROBERT VON MOSCHZISKER 

EDWIN H. VARE 

E. A. VAN VALKENBURG 

C. W. VAN derHOOGT 

JOHN WANAMAKER 

RODMAN L. WANAMAKER 

JOSEPH S. LOVERING WHARTON 

GEORGE WOODWARD 

CLARENCE WOLF 

JOHN T. WINDRIM 

WILLIAM WEAND 

FRANCIS HOWARD WILLIAMS 

E. BURGESS WARREN 

JOHN M. WALTON 

JOHN WEAVER 

GEORGE B. WELLS 

SAMUEL C. WELLS 

JOHN C. WINSTON 

EDSON J. WEEKS 

CHARLES F. WARWICK 

JONES WISTER 

T. WORCESTER WORRELL 

THOMAS WYNNE 

CHARLES S. WALTON 

E. A. WRIGHT, JR. 

J. FRED ZIMMERMAN 
GEORGE W. ZANE 



DIRECTING COMMITTEE 



MARTIN G. BRUMBAUGH, Chairman 

ELLIS PAXSON OBERHOLTZER, Secretary 

A. G. HETHERINGTON 

THOMAS L. MONTGOMERY 

MARION D. LEARNED 

JOHN W. JORDAN 

CHARLES HEBER CLARK 



CHARLES F. JENKINS, ex-officio 
ERNEST L. TUSTIN, ex-officio 
HOWARD B. FRENCH, ex-officio 
MIERS BUSCH, cx-officio 
C. W. SUMMERFIELD, ex-officio 
E. J. BERLET, ex-officio 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 



MARTIN G. BRUMBAUGH, Chairman 

MIERS BUSCH 

CHARLES HEBER CLARK 

CYRUS H. K. CURTIS 

MORRIS JASTROW. JR. 

FRANK MILES DAY 

A. G. HETHERINGTON 

JOHN W. JORDAN 

GEORGE W. JACOBS 

CHARLES F. JENKINS 

MARION D. LEARNED 

E. J, BERLET 



JAMES MacALISTER 
JOHN BACH McMASTER 
THOMAS L. MONTGOMERY 
H. S. MORRIS 
THOMAS T. NELSON 
FRANCIS HOWARD WILLIAMS 
ELLIS PAXSON OBERHOLTZER 
WILLIAM PERRINE 
JOHN E. REYBURN 
HARRY C. RANSLEY 
THEODORE C. SEARCH 
LESLIE W. MILLER 



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FINANCE COMMITTEE 



HOWARD B. FRENCH, Chairman 
JOHN LUCAS. Secretary 
HARRY A. BERWIND 
MORRIS L. CLOTHIER 
J. HOWELL CUMMINGS 
WILLIAM M. COATES 
JAMES ELVERSON 
GEORGE W. ELKINS 
NATHAN T. FOLWELL 
GEORGE H. FRAZIER 
ELLIS A. GIMBEL 
CHARLES H. HARDING 
THOMAS S. HARRISON 



CHARLES E. HIRES 
ALBA B. JOHNSON 
CHARLES F. JENKINS 
SAMUEL D. LIT 
GEORGE W. NORRIS 
ARTHUR E. NEWBOLD 
FRANCIS S. McILHENNY 
LINCOLN K. PASSMORE 
HAROLD PEIRCE 
FRANCIS B. REEVES 
FRANK SCHOBLE 
EDWARD B. SMITH 
CHARLES S. WALTON 



COMMITTEE ON THE SPECIAL OBSERVANCE OF THE 125TH 

ANNIVERSARY OF THE ADOPTION OF THE 

CONSTITUTION 



ERNEST L. TUSTIN. Chairman 

A. G. HETHERINGTON, Secretary 

HAMPTON L. CARSON 

J. HOWELL CUMMINGS 

HOWARD B. FRENCH 

F. WAYLAND AYER 



WILLIAM T. TILDEN 
JOHN ASHHURST 
W. ATLEE BURPEE 
J. HAMPTON MOORE 
GEORGE D. McCREARY 



PUBLICITY COMMITTEE 



E. J. BERLET, Chairman 
E. J. LAFFERTY, Secretary 
FINLEY ACKER 
E. I. BACON 
C. C. A. BALDI 
RALPH BLUM 
CYRUS BORGNER 
FRANKLIN N. BREWER 
JOHN BURT 
A. A. CHRISTIAN 
GORDON S. CARRIGAN 
A. F. DAIX, JR. 
ROBERT D. DRIPPS 
W. W. FRY 
ALFRED GRATZ 
M. F. HANSON 
FRANK HARDART 
CHARLES H. HEUSTIS 
J. R. JONES 
DAVID H. LANE 



LEWIS LUKES 

THOMAS MARTINDALE 

LAURENCE McCORMICK 

HARRY M. NATHANSON 

M. W. NEWTON 

GEORGE W. OCHS 

W. B. OLIVER 

WALTER E. REX 

HENRY STARR RICHARDSON 

WILLIAM SIMPSON 

H. A. SHAW 

H. J. TAFT 

HERBERT J. TILY 

E. A. VAN VALKENBURG 

GEORGE B. WELLS 

SAMUEL C. WELLS 

JONES WISTER 

E. A. WRIGHT, JR. 

JOHN T. WINDRIM 



TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE 



C. W. SUMMERFIELD, Chairman 

BERNARD ASHBY 

CHARLES ELMER SMITH 

E. H. FLAGG, JR. 

N. B. KELLY 

WILLIAM H. McCORMICK 



THOMAS G. MITTEN 
CLAYTON E. PLATT 
ROY L. STALL 
WILLIAM R. TUCKER 
HORACE WILSON 
F. A. MacBRIDE 



Officers and Committees 



II 



CO-OPERATIVE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE 



GEORGE W. BOYD 
EDSON J. WEEKS 
WILLIAM AUSTIN 
A. S. ANDERSON 
R. R. BOGGS 
H. M. BROWN 
J. L. CARVER 
A. F. CLEVELAND 

E. H. FLAGG. JR. 

F. S. GROVES 

M. M. HUBBERT 
F. V. HURCOMB 
S. B. ST. JOHN 



WILLIAM H. KATZ 
A. M. LONGAKER 
GEORGE J. LINCOLN 
W. M. McCONNELL 
THOMAS G. MITTEN 
S. C. MILBOURNE 
GORDAN G. NOBLE 
CHARLES S. KNOWLTON 
P. W. PUMMILL 
T. M. SHAW 
E. W. STRINGFIELD 
C. W. WESTBURY 



WOMEN'S COMMITTEE 

Honorary President 
MRS. RUDOLPH BLANKENBURG 

President 
MRS. SARA P. SNOWDEN MITCHELL 

Vice-Presidents 
MISS EMILY SARTAIN 
MRS. MARY V. GRICE 

MISS ANNE HOLLINGSWORTH WHARTON 
MRS. HARRISON S. MORRIS 
MRS. WALTER COPE 

Secretary 
MRS. WILLIAM LEVERETT 



MRS. FINLEY ACKER 

MRS. HERBERT E. ASHMORE 

MISS A. M. ARCHAMBAULT 

MRS. W. W. ARNETT 

MRS. HENRY W. BUTTERWORTH 

MISS EMMA BLAKISTON 

MISS CONSTANCE BIDDLE 

MISS MARY CARNELL 

MRS. CYRUS H. K. CURTIS 

MRS. MORRIS LLEWELLYN COOKE 

MRS. A. J. CASSATT 

MRS. GEORGE WENTWORTH CARR 

MRS. FRANK MILES DAY 

MISS EMMA E. DONOHUGH 

MRS. JOHN F. DEVELIN 

MRS. A. J. DALLAS DIXON 

MRS. BALTZER E. L. deMARE 

MISS FLORENCE C. FETHERSTON 

MRS. S. S. FELS 

MISS ELEANOR GOEPP 

MRS. AMELIA MOTT GUMMERE 

MISS MARY S. HOLMES 

MRS. WILLIAM H. HANSELL 

MRS. H. LaBARRE JAYNE 

MRS. SAMUEL B. JARDEN 

MRS. MORRIS JASTROW 

MRS. ALBA B. JOHNSON 

MRS. WALTER M. JAMES 

MISS FLORENCE KEEN 

MRS. E. F. KREWSON 

MISS ELIZABETH S. LOWRY 



MRS. JOHN F. LEWIS 

MRS. J. BERTRAM LIPPINCOTT 

MISS MARY W. LIPPINCOTT 

MRS. MARION D. LEARNED 

MRS. F. S. McILHENNY 

MISS ELISABETH McCLELLAN 

MRS. JOHN BACH McMASTER 

MRS. JOSEPH P. MUMFORD 

MISS LYDIE F. MURINGER 

MRS. CHARLES L. MITCHELL 

MRS. JAMES H. MORRIS 

MRS. W. P. MILLER 

MRS. JOSEPH B. McCALL 

MISS ELIZABETH E. MASSEY 

MRS. MARY RHODES NASSAU 

MRS. SARA LOUISA OBERHOLTZER 

MISS ELIZABETH OTTO 

MRS. IMOGEN B. OAKLEY 

MISS DOROTHY PRIESTMAN 

MRS. THOMAS POTTER, JR. 

MRS. ELI KIRK PRICE 

MRS. RICHARD PETERS 

MRS. CHARLES ROBERTS 

MISS FRANCES A. ROBERTS 

MRS. FRANK READ 

THE COUNTESS OF SANTA EULALIA 

MRS. OTIS SKINNER 

MISS MARY I. STILLE 

MRS. DAVID S. STETSON 

MRS. W. B. SHEARD 

MRS. CORNELIUS STEVENSON 



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WOMEN'S COMMITTEE— Continued 

MRS. A. M. STARR MRS. L. H. WEATHERLY 

MRS. WILLIAM STANSFIELD MRS. OWEN WISTER 

MRS. MARSHALL E. SMITH MRS. JOHN PRICE WETHERILL 

MRS FELIX E. SCHELLING MRS. CHURCHILL WILLIAMS 

MRS. CHARLEMAGNE TOWER MRS. T. WORCESTER WORRELL 

MRS. FRANCIS HOWARD WILLIAMS MRS. HAROLD E. YARNALL 

MISS FRANCES A. WISTER 



COMMITTEE ON ENROLLMENT OF PERFORMERS 

THE COUNTESS OF SANTA EULALIA, Chairman 

COSTUME COMMITTEE 

MISS ELISABETH McCLELLAN, Chairman 

COMMITTEE ON CHORUS 

HENRY DETREUX, Chairman 

GRAND STAND COMMITTEE 

MIERS BUSCH, Chairman 



Officers of the Pageant 



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Master of the Pageant 
ELLIS PAXSON OBERHOLTZER 

Master of Color and Design 
CHARLES H. STEPHENS 

Stage Manager 
HENRY KABIERSKE 

Book of the Words 
FRANCIS HOWARD WILLIAMS 

Master of the Music 
HUGH A. CLARKE 

Assistants in the Field 
WILLIAM CHAUNCY LANGDON and JOSEPH JACKSON 

Authority on Historical Costumes 
MISS ELISABETH McCLELLAN 

Authority on Military Subjects 
CHARLES M. LEFFERTS 

Master of the Dances 
ALBERT W. NEWMAN 

Mistress of the Wardrobe 
MRS. MARGARET McHENRY 



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Master of the Band 
SAMUEL H. KENDLE 

Conductor of the Chorus 
WILLIAM J. BOEHM 

Master of the Horse 
GENERAL W. G. PRICE 

Architect of the Grand Stand 
WILLIAM L. PRICE 

Architect of the Meschianza Arches 
JOHN J. BISSIGGER 

Architect of the Grand Federal Edifice 
WILLIAM McKEE WALTON 

Costume Designs 

CHARLES FFOULKES GUERNSEY MOORE 

MRS. ELI KIRK PRICE STANLEY M. ARTHURS 

MRS. ALICE BARBER STEPHENS ERNST F. DETTERER 

EMMA G. EARLENBAUGH and others 

Perruquier 
ANTHONY BOCH 

Special Costumes 
VAN HORN & SON 




MAKERS OF THE PAGEANT 

I Francis Howard Williams 

2 Charles H. Stephens ( I'liDtoirrapli by I'^llis) 

3 Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer (Photograph by Haeseler) 
4 Henry Kabierske 

5 Hugh A. Clarke 



The Words of the Pageant 15 



W^t Morbg of tije pageant 

By 

FRANCIS HOWARD WILLIAMS 

With notes and adaptations to the field by 
ELLIS PAXSON OBERHOLTZER, Master of the Pageant 



PROLOGUE 

INTRODUCTION 

The arena is a wide meadozv, zvith green banks sloping to a river. Trumpets 
announce the Pageant. A Herald rides tip the field and pausing, proclaims: 

Ye who would learn the glory of your past 
And form a forecast of the things to be, 

Give heed to this a city's trumpet-blast 
And see her pictured life in pageantry. 

A mounted knight in silver armor, typifying the spirit of exploration and 
adventure, silently crosses the Held. Sprites enter from ail sides and, beckoning 
to the east, disappear as quickly as they came. 

CHORUS 

Here where the river is breaking its heart in the ocean 
Shall come mighty leaders, undaunted, intrepid, 
Born with the mien of command and the power 
Far-seeing and silent. 



SEMI-CHORUS (Remembrance) 

The past thro' lessening vistas stretches back 
Till in the green of English lanes and all 

The lowland meadows and the Norse fiords 
We see the forbears of a later brawn. 



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SEMI-CHORUS (Aspiration) 

Rather the future liath the nobler view, 

For see ! An inward prescience opens wide 

The gateway of the glories yet to be — 

The time to come when on these banks shall rise 

The kindly habitations of men strong 

To wrest from nature life's beatitude. 

CHORUS 
Whether in memory or in forecast, here 
We have a mighty drama, whose large scenes 
Enfold the birth and nurture into strength 
Of a great people fashioned in God's ways 
To bear His banner forth. 

SCENE I 

HISTORICAL NOTE 

To the Dutch is accorded the honor of first visiting the waters now known as 
Delaware Bay. Henry Hudson, an English navigator in the Dutch service, anchored his 
yacht, the Halve Maan or Half Moon, at the mouth of the Bay, on August 28, i6og, 
before proceeding north to view the site of New Amsterdam or New York and for the 
ascent of the river which bears his name. That river the Dutch soon called the North 
River and the Delaware the South River. Another Dutch boat built at New York 
of only 16 tons burden, the "Onrust" or "Restless," commanded by Captain Hendrickson 
visited the Delaware in the summer of 1615. The first Dutchmen to attempt a settle- 
ment on the South River were members of a party brought here by Captain Cornelis 
Jacobsen Mey, (whence Cape May) in 1623 or 1624. He came to the present site of 
Gloucester, N. J., and erected a stockade fort there, called Fort Nassau, which was the 
stronghold of the Dutch in the southern parts of the colony of New Netherland for 
many years. It was in sight of the forests of Passaiung, Wicaco and Coquanoc. In 
a year or two the small colony which was planted here disappeared. The settlers 
and fur traders of which it was composed made their way to their friends on Man- 
hattan Island. A number of the directors of the Dutch West India Company soon 
formed a syndicate to possess themselves of and utilize the lands of the South River. 
They constituted themselves patroons or feudal chiefs of the country, and with a 
view to actual colonization engaged the services of David Pietersen de Vries of Hoorn. 
He was a skipper who had lately returned from a long cruise to the East Indies. The 
first expedition made up of a sloop and a yacht under command of Captain Peter 
Heyse came out in 1631. De Vries did not accompany it. The party landed in a creek 
called Hoern Kill, presumably in honor of Hoorn in Holland, soon corrupted into 
Hoerkill or Horekill, now Lewes Creek, in lower Delaware state. Here a house was 
erected and surrounded with palisades. It was named Fort Oplandt and the little 
settlement was called Swaannendael (the vale or valley of the swans). The principal 
objects of the colonists were fur trading with the Indians, particularly in beaver skins 
which then abounded, and fishing for whales, then very plentiful in the bay and river. 
De Vries says that the colony numbered two and thirty men. They set up a column 
bearing the arms of Holland on a piece of tin. Some of the Indian sachems tore down 
this ernblem and converted the tin into tobacco pipes. This or other incidents led to 
ill feeling and a few months after it was established the entire colony was extirpated. 
De Vries was about to start for America with a second expedition when news reached 
him of the massacre. He came on undeterred by his discouraging advices, and arrived 
before the half burned remains of Fort Oplandt early in 1633. The Lenni Lenape, or 
Delaware Indians who frequented the river banks, were at the time at war with the 
Mengwe or Minquas or Mingoes, a more militant tribe settled in Maryland and in the 
Susquehanna country. 




(I'hotograph by N'auyhan ami l'"rascr. Sail Francisco) 

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CAST OF CHARACTERS 

David Pietersen De Vries, skipper and patroon of Ploorn. 
Heyndrick de Liefde, his cousin, of Rotterdam. 
Peter Heyse, of Edam, captain of the sloop Wah-us. 
GiLLiss Hosset, commissary. 
Colonists, with mastiff, cattle, etc. 
Soldiers and sailors with guns from the sloop. 

Indian sachems — Sannoowouns, Wiewit, Pemhacke, Mekowetick, Mathomen, 
Sacook, Anchoopoen, Janquens, Pokahake, Sakimas, Zeepentor, etc. 

The scene represents the landing of the Dutch colonists on the Delan'ure. 
The Dutch and the Indians mingle upon the held. 

CHORUS 

See how the Lenni Lcnape make friends with the white men. 

Trusting with faith in the faith of a stranger. 

Haply not always doth Peace spread her wings so benignly, 

When men of one race come together to barter and struggle 

In life's competition. Behold, through the greening 

A bold sailor cometh, De Vries the intrepid. 

The scene becomes a)iiiiiated. It represents the settlement of Swaannendael 
on the Horekill or Lezves Creek. The Dutch are planting their colony. Men 
are seen building huts and carrying utensils and materials. Songs of old Hol- 
land are sung. A band of Indians enter and salute ivith cries of "Itah!" They 
join the Dutch in making merry. Captain Heyse gives them schnapps which 
they drink and call it "Hre water." He tells them that the stockade shall be called 
Fort Oplandt and the settlement Szmannendael. He and Hosset raise a column 
on zvhich is placed a large tin sign bearing the Dutch arms. 

CHORUS 

Soon shall the clouds gather ominous, dark and forbidding, 
Soon shall the peace pipe be smoked for the last time, 
Soon shall come discord and blood. 

While the Indians play reed pipes and tambourines in their frolic, the Dutch 
give their attention to the river and move off tozvard the bank. One of the cliiefs 
removes the tin containing the painted arms of Holland and begins to break it 
up. Soon De Vries and a company of sailors in military order advance up the 
bank accompanied by Heyse and his company. They meet the chiefs, who seat 
themselves with the Dutch in a circle. The pipe of peace is smoked and the Dutch 
are seen paying for the land in mercliandise of various kinds. As the negotiations 
draw to an end, the troops inarch in and occupy Fort Oplandt. The Indians ob- 
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Heyse draws De Vries' attention to the missing arms. The tin is discorered in a 
crumpled condition on the ground. The pipe of peace is broken and the Indians 
leave hurriedly. 

The whites get unthin the palisades. Armed men are seen preparing for 
defence. Soon there is heard the zvar-whoop of the Lenni Lenape. They rush 
in and attack the fort. There is a sharp musketry fire from the palisades which 
are finally assaulted by the Indians. The Indians carry the defences, and sounds 
of massacre are heard from within. De Vries is seen at the side of the fort, 
giving directions to a horseman. 

De Vries. — Ride for thy life to the friendly tribe of the Minquas. Tell them 
we perish at the hands of their foes — the tribe of the Delawares. They are 
bounden to us by treaty, and will come forthwith to our aid. Now ride — ride for 
thy life, and God speed thee. 

The horseman dashes off and disappears through the greenery. Meanwhile 
the Lenni Lenape set fire to the fort, zvhich is soon burned to the ground. A ivar 
dance and a ivild chant of znctory follozu. An occasional musket shot from be- 
hind the palisades. Sounds of wailing and cries from imthin. 

Finally a commotion is heard. A band of Minquas rushes in and attacks the 
Lenni Lenape. A furious battle ensues. The Dutch and Minquas vanquish the 
Lenni Lenape, who are driven from the field, dead and zvounded being left upon 
the ground. The men of De Vries' party saily from the ruins of the for^t. 



SCENE II 

HISTORICAL NOTE 

A leading influence in the organization and direction of the Dutch West India 
Company, William Usselinx, involved himself in disagreements with his associates and 
laid proposals for a new company before the great Gustavus Adolphus. As a result, 
the Swedish West India Company was formed in 1624. Because of the King's con- 
tinental wars the plans of the promoter rested for several years. In 1632 Gustavus 
Adolphus fell on the battlefield of Lutzen, leaving the government in the hands of his 
little daughter Christina and his chancellor Oxenstierna. The company at length made 
its arrangements for the colonization of the lands which the Dutch company had been 
endeavoring to put to some use. Peter Minuit, who had been Director General of 
New Netherland at New Amsterdam from 1626 until 1632, familiar with conditions on 
the North and South Rivers, was employed to head an expedition to America. He 
fitted up two ships, the Kalmar Nyckel (Key of Kalmar) and the Grip (Griffin). With 
soldiers colonists, cattle, implements and provisions on board, they reached the South 
River after various adventures and delays early in 1638. The crews were half Swedish 
and half Dutch. The colonists, too, were divided in their national origin and fealty. 
The Dutch had by this time re-occupied Fort Nassau at or near the present Gloucester, 
N J. They forbade the Swedes to ascend the river beyond this point. They protested 
against Swedish settlement at any place on either bank of the great river, within the 
boundaries of what they were pleased to call New Netherland. Minuit, however, entered 
Minquas Kill, renaming it Christina, known to this day as Christiana or Christeen 
Creek. When up about two and a half miles from its mouth he disembarked 
at "The Rocks" on the site of the present city of Wilmington, and built stockades which 
with solemn ceremony he christened Fort Christina. Here he planted his colony. In a 
few months he set sail for home by way of the West Indies, leaving about 25 soldiers 
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CAST OF CHARACTERS 

Peter Minuit, late of the Dutch West India Company, now director of the 

Swedish West India Company's expedition to the South River. 

Mans Kling, in command of the soldiery. 

Hendrick Huygen, commissary. 

Jacob Evertssen Sandelin"! 

^soldiers. 
Andres Lucassen J 

Jan Hendricksen, skipper on the Kalmar Nyckel. 

Michel Symonssen, first mate. 

Andrian Joransen, skipper on the Grip. 

Rev, Reorus Torkillus, the first preacher in New Sweden. 

Jan Jansen, Governor Kieft's representative at Fort Nassau. 

Mattahoon, Mitatsimint and ether Indian chieftains. 

Soldiers, seamen and colonists from the two Swedish ships. 

Dutchmen on the staff of Jan Jansen from Fort Nassau. 

CHORUS 

Now come to these shores the hardy Swedes ; 

Here do they found their town of Christina, 

Planting the name of a Queen in the Western domain. 

Ready to fight for the right with the Hollander, 

Bringing the brawn of their race to the struggle with nature. 

Bringing their honest endeavor to build up a colony 

Strong and enduring. 

As the Chorus is chanting, the scene is changed to represent the settlement 
of Fort Christina. Meantime the tiring of cannon is heard in the direction of the 
river. The Indians run douni the bank and for a little time disappear from view. 
They return laden with presents in token of further purchases of lands. The 
Swedes now march up the bank and plant posts on ivhich are the letters "C.R.S." 
(Christina Regina Sueciae.) Torkillus preaches to the people briefly and bids 
them kneel. Jan Jansen and his men enter. 

Jansen. — In the name of Governor Kieft, the representative of their High 
Mightinesses of the States General of Holland, I protest against the planting of 
any foreign colony in New Netherland. This land is the property of the Dutch by 
fair purchase sealed with their blood. (Addressing Minuit) On you will fall the 
blame for all future mishaps, damages, losses, disturbances and bloodshed. 

Minuit maintains a polite but unyielding attitude, and the Dutch withdraw in 
the direction in zvhich they came. 

Minuit. — Under the protection of the great princess, virgin and elected 
Queen of the Swedes, Goths and Wends, I christen this land New Sweden. Under 
the protection of her gracious majesty, I name this fort Qiristina. 

The Swedish arms are now placed upon the palisades and a Szvedish Hag is 
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SCENE III 

HISTORICAL NOTE 

The Swedes are scarcely seated under Dutch protest when English colonists arrive 
from New Haven. Their coming is of course unwelcome to both Dutch and Swedes. 
The English claims based upon early voyages covered the entire coast. Lord De la 
Warre was thought to have come into the bay, as was Samuel Argall, a later governor 
of Virginia. Possibly they may have done so. Anyhow, the Virginians and later the 
English everj'where attached De la Warre's name to the baj' and the river flowing into 
it. Casual and intermittent efforts had been made by English shipmasters to trade 
with the Indians and to found settlements, but the first important movement to this 
end was that directed by a so-called Delaware Company in which George Lamberton, 
Nathaniel Turner and others were interested persons. Like the Dutch and Swedes, 
they purchased lands from the Indians, at first on the east side of the Delaware at 
the Varkin's Kill and a little later on the river which the Dutch called the Schuylkill. 
Some twenty families of 60 persons — traders and tobacco planters from New Haven — 
were brought into the river. The Swedish settlement at Fort Christina had been 
increased in April. 1640, by the arrival of a second expedition under Peter Hollandaer 
Ridder and by a third in November of that year under Joost van Bogaert. Ridder on 
his side in behalf of the Swedes and Jansen still in command of Fort Nassau for the 
Dutch, expelled the English on the Schuylkill and burnt their store house and dwellings 
in 1642. 

CAST OF CHARACTERS 

George Lamberton ] ^ r ^1 -n, 1 /- 

_ Vagents of the Delaware Company. 

Nathaniel Turner j 

Robert Coxwell, planter and seaman. 

English colonists of both sexes, and a few Indians. 

Swedes under Ridder and van Bogaert. 

Dutch under Jansen. 

The scene slwics Lambertoii's blockhouse on the Schuylkill. IVhilc the Eng- 
lish are at zvork on the surronnding lands, Ridder and van Bogaert appear with 
a party of Swedes from Fort Christina. 

Van Bogaert. — What is that standard there, right worthy Governor? 

Ridder. — That is an English ensign, as I'm alive. 

Van Bogaert. — And here, beside this fine stream that empties itself into the great 

river like a flagon of wine down the throat of a Dutchinan. 
Ridder. — In truth. They call it in their own tongue the Schuylkill, because a 

dunderhead of a Dutcli seaman passed it by without seeing its mouth. 

W^hat say you, van Bogaert, to English neighbors ? 

By this time Lamberton and other Englishmen have come out to meet the 
Szvedish party, which delivers its protest in the name of their queen. Jan Jansen, 
leading a Dutch party, is seen to approach, lie is surprised to find the Swedes 
on the ground but also protests. 

Lamberton. — This river is the Delaware. 

Jansen. — This is the Zuydt River. 

Ridder. — This land is New Sweden. 

The English (shouting angrily). — Indeed it is not! This is New Albion! 

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The Dutch and Szi'edes agree together to expel the E)iglish, and drive a^ 
pitiful cavalcade without resistance into the ivood. They then set fire to the 
blockhouse. But the union is not for long. Some one shouts "Mew Sweden!" 
Another shouts "Netv Netherland!" and zwth these zvords often repeated, they 
disappear from the field in opposite directions. Some Indians xvho have been wit- 
nessing the scene from the brush now come forward in great glee at the prospect 
of conflict bctzi'cen the different groups of zvhite invaders. 



SCENE IV 

HISTORICAL NOTE 

Dutch and Swedes continued their mutual claims upon the river. The Swedes 
strengthened their position in 1643 when they sent out a new governor, Johan Printz, 
a cavalry officer — a good soldier, a tactful diplomat, and with it all an ostentatious, 
a rich and a successful colonial adventurer. His wife and children and a considerable 
number of Swedish soldiers accompanied him, and he at once began a campaign for 
the extension of the sphere of Swedish influence on the Delaware. Two vessels made 
up his expedition, the Fama and the Swan, which reached the Delaware in January, 1643. 
Fort Christina was too far removed from the Delaware to be useful in the control 
of the navigation of the river, and almost immediately the construction of a new fort 
was begun at a point well south of Christina on the east side of the river. This work 
was called New Elfsborg. Printz himself pressed up the river toward the Schuylkill 
and built a fine residence called Printz Hall on Tinicum Island. Here he lived in a 
good deal of splendor, considering the restrictions of the time. The Dutch looked on 
anxiously, but there were Dutch settlers in New Sweden and some Swedes doubtless in 
New Netherland. Both were in dread of the English whose intermittent incursions 
continued. The Dutch opposition ended with protest but other days approached. In 
1645 Andries Hudde superseded Jan Jansen as commissary at Fort Nassay (Gloucester) 
beyond which no Swedish boat might go without being fired upon. In 1647 Governor 
Kieft's place at New Amsterdam was taken by a vigorous administrator, Peter Stuy- 
vesant. Disturbed by what Printz had done on the South River, particularly in lock- 
ing up the Schuylkill, the Dutch in 1648 built a fort on the north side of the Schuylkill 
near its mouth, called Fort Beversreede, because its object was to control the beaver 
trade on that river. Printz erected a block house directly in front of the new fort 
with a view to rendering it useless. His course was so insistent that it was to be 
borne no longer, and in 1651 the Dutch came around from New Amsterdam in force 
and constructed a fort on the west side of the river below Christina and north of the 
stockade at Elfsborg. They named it Fort Casimir, and they transferred to this place 
the garrison and the cannon which had defended Fort Nassau. Meantime, Printz had 
appealed again and again, but always vainly, to the Swedish government for reinforce- 
ments. Unable to be of further use, as he believed, he departed the colony after an 
administration of ten years, in 1653, taking a number of colonists with him. He left 
New Sweden in charge of his son-in-law Johan Papegoja. After the party had gone 
and some deserters to other colonies had been subtracted from the population, it is 
estimated that only about seventy souls remained in New Sweden. The number was 
soon increased by a couple of hundred upon the arrival of a new governor, John 
Classon Rising. His policy was militant. Coming up before Fort Casimir he demanded 
its surrender, which was soon efifected, on Trinity Sunday, 1654, for which reason its 
name was changed to Fort Trefaldighet (Fort Trinity). Stuyvesant immediately made 
arrangements to avenge the high-handed act and in 1655 returned to the Delaware 
with a fleet of sufficient size to retake Fort Casimir and advance upon Fort Christina, 
which also fell. The Dutch were now supreme upon the Delaware and remained so 
until the conquest of New Netherland by the English in 1664. 

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CAST OF CHARACTERS 
In Arrwing Party: 

JOHAN Printz, the Swedish Governor, an immense man whom the Indians called 
"the big tub" (De Vries said that he weighed over 400 pounds — "over de 
vierhundret pondt woeg"). 

Madame Printz, the Governor's wife, who was Maria von Linnestau. 

Armegot Printz, later Madame Papegoja"" 



►daughters of the Governor. 



Catherine Printz 

Christina Printz 

Elsa Printz 

GuNiLLA Printz 

Gustaf Printz, the Governor's son 

Captain Sven Skute, first in command under Printz. 

Rev. John Campanius (Holm.) Printz's chaplain. 

Gregorius van Dyck. 

Other Swedish officers. 

In Receiving Party: 
Governor Peter Hollender Ridder. 
Lieutenant Mans Kling. 
Joost van Langdonk, Commissary. 
Joran Olsson, Provost Marshal. 
Rev. Reorus Torkillus, the preacher of the colony. 
A barber surgeon, swineherds, planters, soldiers, carpenters, and Indians. 
Dutch under Sir Peter Stuyvesant and Andries Hudde, who had taken 

Jansen's place as commissary at Fort Nassau. 

CHORUS 

Minuit passes and another comes 
More powerful, more full of state, withal 
More conscious of the dignity wherewith 
His sovereign hath endowed him. 
Comes Printz the soldier to administer 
The civil law to all who dwell within 
New Sweden's bounds. 

The scene shoivs the arrival of Printz's party at Fort Christina early in the 
year J64J. As they are sighted the soldiers in the fort raise the Swedish flag and 
Hre a salute. The Rev. Reorus Torkillus gathers his little flock around him and 
they sing a psalm as they go dozvn to meet their country-people. There are 
shouts of welcome, handshakings, a waving of handkerchiefs cmd banners. In- 
dians peep out from behind the trees. Printz adz'ances ivith his wife and children 
around him, attended by an escort of brilliantly uniformed Stvedish soldiers, a 
trumpeter and a drummer. They move up to the front of the fleld. A few In- 
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Printz. — What's he that comes yonder without the invitation of the royal gov- 
ernor of New Sweden ? 

RiDDER. — They are Dutchmen, your excellency, and they may, methinks, come 
hither on no good errand. 'Tis well for them to see this goodly company 
of well-armed men. 

Printz. — (To Huddc, who leads) What would you here in the midst of our 
thanksgiving? Do you come as true subjects of her Royal Majesty and 
honest colonists? 

HuDDE. — (Cravenly, ordering his Hag to he furled) We come to give you wel- 
come and to ask your aid against the English. 

Printz. — (Haughtily) Then you may go. For my aid is for neither Dutch nor 
Englishmen. 

The Dutch unthdraw in no good humor. Some of the Szvedish colonists 
follozv them and there is scuMing ivith their rear guard as they again unfurl their 
flag and retire through the wood. Prints and his party now pass off the field 
Some of the Sivedes return and meet an advancing party of Dutchmen under Sir 
Peter Stuyvesant, Governor of New Netherland. A general engagement, in which 
the Indians have a part, follouKs. 

Wailing music is heard as all the characters pass off the field. Suddenly the 
Chorus bursts into triumphal harmonies, alternated with the minor chords of the 
Semi-Chorus. 

CHORUS 

Farewell to the era of terrible conflict ! 

All hail to the spirit of peace that approaches ! 

I SEMI-CHORUS (Remembrance) 
Alas ! The blood — the sacrifice. Alas ! The fear. 



H SEMI-CHORUS (Aspiration) 

He comes the bearer of a message fair. 
Sent by the Prince of Peace. 



I SEMI-CHORUS (Remembrance) 
See how the field lies sodden with the dead. 

II SEMI-CHORUS (Aspiration) 

From this sad sowing shall there yet arise 
A harvest of great deeds. 



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EPISODE I 



SCENE I 

HISTORICAL NOTE 

William Penn, the son of an English admiral, Sir William Penn, was born in 
1644. Much against his father's will he early embraced the religion of George Fox, 
and became a Quaker, suffering the social ostracism and the legal persecutions which 
were the portion of this sect and of adherents of other dissenting faiths under the 
Stuarts. Penn's father died in 1670. A considerable sum was due him from the crown 
in loans and arrears of pay in the naval service of the kingdom. The son had in view 
the founding of an asylum for his fellow-Quakers and to further this object at length 
agreed with Charles II and his brother the Duke of York, afterward James II, to take 
a tract of wild American land in liquidation of the debt. For obligations in the sum 
of f 16,000 he was given a piece of country beyond the seas "lying north from Mary- 
land — bounded on the east by the Delaware River, on the west limited as Maryland 
and northward to extend as far as plantable," containing when its bounds were further 
defined over 40,000 square miles, an area therefore greater than Ireland and almost 
as great as that of England itself. The charter was signed at Westminster on March 
4, 1681. The king christened the country Pennsylvania, that is, "the sylvan land of 
Penn," but not without protest from the new proprietor, who became reconciled to 
the name only because the prefix "pen" signified in the Welsh language a headland. 
Pennsylvania might mean then "the high or head woodlands." He early planned "a 
capital city," a "great town." It was to be a "greene country town which will never 
be burnt and always wholesome." He resolved that it should be called Philadelphia, 
no doubt suggested by passages in Revelation which refer to Philadelphia in the 
province of Lydia in Asia Minor. The place was the seat of an early Christian con- 
gregation and the name signifies brotherly or sisterly love. Soon after he had received 
his charter, Penn sent his cousin, William Markham, to his colony to prepare it for 
settlement. A temporary capital was established at Upland (Chester) and three com- 
missioners, and later Thomas Holme, a surveyor, were despatched to plat Philadelphia, 
and the surrounding country. Penn himself arranged to follow in the autumn of 1682. 
He embarked at Deal with about one hundred companions, mostly Quakers, in the 
Welcome, a ship of 300 tons burden. It came inside the Delaware Capes, the ship's 
list much decimated by small pox, on October 24, 1682, and five days later was riding 
at anchor before Upland. Well founded tradition has it that Penn with several asso- 
ciates came up the Delaware and landed at the Blue Anchor Inn at Dock Creek, that 
is at the foot of the present Dock Street, early in November. Here he met some of the 
settlers who were already on the ground, the Swedes resident in Wicaco, and many 
Indians with whom, legend informs us, he played like a boy. He at once or a little 
later gave them presents in propitiation and friendship and concluded treaties, one of 
which tradition locates upon the ground under an elm in Shackamaxon, which is now 
Kensington. 

CAST OF CHARACTERS 

In Landing Party: 

William Penn. 

Captain William Markham, his cousin, who met him at Upland. 

Robert Wade, of Upland. 

Dr. Thomas Wynne, the Welsh Quaker physician, who accompanied Penn on 

the Welcome. 
Ten or twelve other passengers of the Welcome, including David Ogi>I';n, 

Nicholas Waln, Thomas Fitzwater and John Fisher. 




MEMBERS OF THE WOMEN'S COMMITTEE 
I Mrs. Sara Louisa Oberholtzer (Photosraph by Ilaescler) 

2 Miss A. Margaretta Archambault (Photograph by Marceau) 
3 Countess of Santa Eulalia 

4 Mrs. Amelia Mott Gummere 

5 Mrs. Francis Howard Williams 




MEMBERS OF THE WOMEN'S COMMITTEE 

I Mrs. Mary V. Grice ( I'ln ito^rapli by Marccau) 
2 Miss Mary I. Stille 

3 Mrs. Sara P. Snowden Mitchell ( Photograph by Mary Carnell) 
4 Mrs. Henry W. Butterworth (Photograph by Marceau) 
5 Miss Mary Carnell 



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In Receiving Party: 

Thomas Holme, the surveyor-general of Pennsylvania. 

John Bezar ^ 

Nathaniel Allen > Commissioners. 

William Haige J 

Captain William Dare, "mine host" at the Blue Anchor Inn. 

Thomas Fairman, of Shackamaxon. 

Daniel Pegg, whose farm lay on the banks of Cohoquinoque or Pcgg's Run. 

William Warner, who lived west of the Schuylkill, from Blockley, England, 

a name which he gave to the township in which he made his new home. 
John Mifflin and his son John, founders of the Mifflin family in America, 

who were early on the ground. 
John Drinker, the "first-born" and his parents. He lived to be 102 years of 

age, or until 1783. Franklin, when asked in England to what age men 

lived in America replied that he could not tell "until old Drinker died." 
Rev. Jacob Fabritius, of the Swedish Giurch of Wicaco, of whom Wliittier 

wrote, 

"from Finland's birchen groves exiled 
Manly in thought, in simple ways a child, 
His white hair floating round his visage mild." 

Other Swedes from Wicaco, frontier adventurers from the caves on the river 
bank, sailors and Indians. 

The arena represents the meadoiv lands at the mouth of Dock Creek around 
the Blue Anchor Inn, overlooking the tall forest trees of Coquanoc, the Indian 
name for what catne to he Philadelphia. 

CHORUS 

Across the space of storied years, 

Through all the purpling mists of Time, 
A voice is wafted to our ears, 

A figure in the invigored prime 
Of noble manhood meets our gaze. 

As back our longing eyes are turned 
To find, within the vanished days, 

The heights where Freedom's beacon burned. 

And these, like benedictions, rest 

Upon our lives, a dower divine, 
A heritage benignly blest; 

Great Founder! Voice and form are thine. 
We see thee, as, like one apart — 

Quaker and soldier aptly blent — 
Of truth of soul and strength of heart 

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We hear thee as thy message fell — 

The evangel of a holier creed — 
More lofty than the organ's swell, 

More potent than the conqueror's deed. 
Like Him who brought the heavenly dower 

Of peace on earth, good will towards men, 
Thou camest on savage heads to shower 

A blessing, O immortal Penn ! 

Thine was the blood of truest dye 

That scoffed at Fortune's cap and bells, — 
The soul that could not stoop to lie 

Nor soil the house where honor dwells. 
Thine, only thine, the faith to keep 

The pathway that the Master trod. 
Remembering that, tho' Justice sleep. 

Her head rests in the lap of God. 

No city's sumptuous portals reared 

Shall dull our hearts, no greatness drown 
Remembrance of the love which cheered 

The toil of thy green country town. 
And round thy memory we were fain 

To weave a wreath of flowers fair. 
From every hill and every plain 

Kissed by the tides of Delaware. 

As the Chorus finishes, figures are seen landing from a pinnace, and coming 
vp through the greenery. William Penn is in the lead, accompanied by William 
Markhatn, Robert Wade, Thomas Wynne and others. As they advance, Holme, 
the commissioners, Fairman, Warner, Pegg, Fabritius and the others go forziKird. 
The Indians look on at the scene. 

Penn. — {After surveying the scene, addressing Markham) Thou hast done well, 

Cousin Markham. Thou hast chosen a right excellent site for our greene 

country town as I bade thee do. 
Holme. — Beyond there where thou seest that great tree is the High Street and 

going out its lengtli thou wilt come to the Broad Street. 
Penn. — All is well. 'Tis fair and seemly ground for my capital city. You all 

have served me to my good satisfaction. Ah {in surprise and delight as 

he sees John Drinker, a babe in the arms of its mother) a child here in 

my wilderness? 
Markham. — In sooth. Cousin William. Born on this ground in yonder cabin 

rising two years since. 



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Penn. — May God give thee his blessing, my young Pennsylvanian. Love thy 
mother who will breed thee up dutiful to the Lord. 

{Fahritins and some Stvedes appear, their hats in their hands.) 

Penn. — {To Fabritius) Thou mayest put on thy hat good man. I am come to 
be one of you, not to rule as a lord over you. To the natives, too, whose 
dark skins hide good hearts, I come as a friend. What canst thou and I 
do here, Thomas {addressing Dr. Thomas Wynne, his companion on the 
Welcome) to show forth our good disposition toward these people? 

Wynne. — I wot not, William. They seem scarce in our image. Mayhap God 
tried us sore of pestilence on our way hither but to prove our souls and 
fit us better for the making of thy holy experiment. 

Penn. — Thomas, thou'rt as good a preacher as thou'rt a skilful leech. 

Penn mingles with the Indians, sitting down on the ground beside them, 
leaping ivith them in play, aiming an arrozv from one of their bozvs, giving them 
a sash which he takes from his person and sending for gifts, zvhich are brought 
in chests. They are soon filled with delight. The Indians go out and bring in 
skins and corn. They call Penn "Onas." An interpreter appears. 

Penn. — {To interpreter.) Tell them that I know no religion that destroys cour- 
tesy, civility and kindness. I have come to put an end to enmity and dis- 
pute. My policy shall be openness and love and peace. 

The Indiafis hear what is translated and communicated to them in their ozvn 
tongue with marks of approval. 

The Interpreter. — They say, "We will live in peace with Onas and his children 
so long as the sun and moon endure." 

The Indians ivith great noise "say Amen in their way." 

Penn. — {To those grouped around him.) My dear friends, God hath given me 
this new land in the face of the world. He will bless and make it the seed 
of a nation. 

They move off, the Indiafis in one direction, the English and Swedes in 
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SCENE II 

HISTORICAL NOTE 

William Penn returned to England in 1684 and he was not destined to revisit his 
colony on the Delaware for fifteen years. Meanwhile much had happened to him 
personally as well as to England. The pleasure-loving Charles II had died to make 
way for his brother the Duke of York, who ascended the throne as James II. His 
infamies, which Macaulay so graphically describes, led to the Revolution of 1688 and 
the accession of William and Mary. Mary died in 1694 and William III would rule 
alone until his death in 1702, to be followed by her sister Anne. Penn's wife, the 
beloved Gulielma Maria Springett, died in 1694 and his favorite son Springett at the 
threshold of young manhood followed his mother to the grave in 1696. In that year 
Penn contracted a second marriage, his choice this time falling upon the daughter of 
a Quaker merchant in Bristol, Hannah Callowhill. In 1699 when he again set out 
for his colony she and his daughter by his first wife, Letitia or "Tishe," as he 
affectionately called her, accompanied him. He came before Philadelphia in his ship 
the "Canterbury" on December 3, 1699, and the "greene country towne" and his estate 
on the Delaware, Pennsbury, which had been fitted up for him in his absence, were 
to be his home for nearly two years. His departure was taken in November, 1701, 
and he was destined never to return to his province. In the more than fifteen years 
which had elapsed since his first visit many of the supports and pillars of the colony 
had been removed by death. Others had come forward to take their places. Philadelphia 
may have had a population of 3000 or 4000. It boasted of shops and inns, a brew- 
house or two, brick-kilns, rope-walks and a few other industries. Some commodious 
homes had been erected near the river side, but the houses for the most part were 
wooden cabins. The Quaker element predominated but a group of men faithful to the 
Church of England had gathered here and made themselves quite hostile to Penn and 
the Friends. The Welsh, some of whom had come with Penn in the Welcome, increased 
in number. Many families from Wales had settled in the so-called "Welsh Tract" 
beyond the Schuylkill, in Merion, Radnor and Haverford, and pressed on into Chester 
county. German sectarians had begun to arrive. The first of these to enter the colony 
reached Pennsylvania under Pastorius while Penn was here during his first visit, and 
settled in Germantown: this was the beginning of a strong tide of immigration from 
Germany, which reached proportions alarming to the English element in the first half 
of the eighteenth century. A number of odd German mystics under John Kelpius had 
established a community on the "Ridge" in the dark fastnesses of the Wissahickon. The 
Scotch Irish who were destined to come in such numbers at a somewhat later date to 
people the frontier counties were already seen in the city. In short, Pennsylvania had 
come to fulfill its founder's purpose: it was a haven for the oppressed in conscience of 
many national roots. Before his departure in 1701 Penn gave the colony a new charter 
of privileges and the city a charter for its government, both of which continued in 
force until the Revolutionary War. 



CAST OF CHARACTERS 
William Penn. 

Hannah Callowhill Penn, his wife. 
Letitia Penn, his daughter. 
Andrew Hamilton, the new Governor. 

William Markham, now Colonel Markham, several times Deputy Governor. 
James Logan, a young Irishman who came with Penn on his second visit and 

remained here to represent the Penn interests faithfully until his death. 
Edward Shippen, Councillor and ]\Iayor. 
Samuel Carpenter, Councillor and merchant. ("The Stephen Girard of his 

day in wealth and the William Sansom in the improvements he suggested 

and the edifices which he built." — Watson) 
Thomas Story, Councillor and City Recorder. 




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40th Regiment 

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Phineas Pemberton >, 

Griffith Owen lother Councillors. 

Caleb Pusey J 

JosiAH Carpenter 

Griffith Jones 

Anthony Morris 

Thomas Masters 

Isaac Norris. 

Jonathan Dickinson. 

William Trent, who founded Trenton. 

Thomas Wharton. 

William Hudson. 

Toby Leech. 

Robert Assheton. 

Joseph Growden. 

Humphrey Morrey. 

Nicholas Waln. 

Francis Rawle. 

John Cadwalader. 

Thomas Fairman, and otlier citizens. 

Robert Quarry, John Moore, King's agents, and other Church of England men 

hostile to Penn. 
A group of English colonists of both sexes. 
A group of Welsh colonists. 
A group of Swedes from Wicaco, Passyunk and Moyamensing, headed by their 

priests. 
A group of Germans headed by Francis Daniel Pastorius and William Rit- 

tenhouse. 
Mystics from the "Ridge." 
Indians. 

The scene is the wide and grassy space used as a market place at Second and 
High Streets. 

CHORUS 

The law of love doth work its perfect will : 
The savage breast beneath its touch grows still, 
And to the brawls of Hollander and Swede 
The "Quaker King's" mild order shall succeed. 
And peace and justice shall the measure fill, 
Translating promise to immortal deed 
And founding empire in simplicity. 



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The Scene opens zvith the arrhal of the Welsh to Welsh music. These are 
follozved by the Germans and the Szi'edish people in groups. Indians 
enter and join the crozvd. The English citizenry then make their appearance on 
the scene, and following them come Penn, his wife and daughter, Logan and a 
retinue, all mounted. Their "creatures" are hitched to trees or held by boys and 
young men on the outskirts of the crozvd zvhich has gathered to zmtness th^ piib^ 
lication of the charter of priznleges of the colony and the city charter. 

Penn.— (To Logan) I have had the wish to see the great charter of the prov- 
ince published ere I go home. I bid thee draw the people around us, James. 

(The groups drazv near and mingle.) 

Penn. — (To the multitude) ]\Iy wish that Pennsylvania should be an asylum 
for the stricken by God's blessing is being fulfilled. I hereby grant you, my 
people, a new frame of government which I am hopeful will be for your 
well-being. Some religions persecute, mine forgives. Whoever is in the 
wrong, those who use force in religion can never be in the right. There- 
fore, I, William Penn, proprietary and governor of the province of Penn- 
sylvania, by virtue of the King's letters patent, again confirm my grant to 
vou all of freedom of conscience as to your religious profession and wor- 
ship under one Almighty God — the Creator, Upholder and Ruler of the 
world. 

The councillors drazv n-ear and receive the parchment. 

Penn (continuing). — To you who are of my dear Philadelphia, I grant further 
this charter for your government. Your town and borough shall be a city. 
Virgin settlement of this province, named before thou wert born, what love, 
what care, what service and what travail has there been to bring thee forth 
and preserve thee from such as would abuse and defile thee. O ! that thou 
mayst be kept from the evil that would overwhelm thee; that, faithful to 
the God of thy mercies in the life of righteousness, thou mayst be preserved 
to the end. 

The Mayor and Aldermen receive the scroll representing the City Charter. 



CHORUS 

Justice and Mercy and Love: Love of each man for his brother, 
Philos-Adelphos, fit motto of them who establish 
Here on the banks of the swift-flowing rivers 
Deep the foundations of Penn's noble city. 



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I SEMI-CHORUS (Remembrance) 

Dim in the mystical past, in far Lydia, 
Men reared the walls of a wonderful city ; 
Weaving their motto of Philos-Adelphos into their covenant,- 
Naming the work of their hands Philadelphia, — 
Philos-Adelphos, — brotherly love. 



II SEMI-CHORUS (Aspiration) 

Philos-Adelphos, — a phrase of the ages, — 
Now in this western dominion renascent. 
Here on the banks of the Delaware born again 
Into a grandeur which through coming centuries 
Swiftly shall dwarf all the dreams of fair Lydia — 
Fair Philadelphia — city of Penn. 



CHORUS 

Behold a city where a forest stood, 
Behold the reign of Equity begun, 
Farewell the Founder of a Mighty state 
And hail an empire based on Equity. 



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EPISODE II 



HISTORICAL NOTE 

The differences between England and her American Colonies reached an angry 
stage in 1765 when the Stamp Act was passed, and she asserted the right of taxing 
them for her support. Benjamin Franklin had gone abroad to represent the province 
in London in 1757. He returned in 1762 but went out again as the colonial agent in 
1764 to remain away for ten years. He was appealed to on the subject of the Stamp 
Act, but his protests were unavailing. The Philadelphians when the stamp paper 
arrived refused to permit it to be landed or sold. The merchants signed the "Non 
Importation Resolutions," pledging themselves not to trade with Great Britain until 
the ofifensive law should be repealed, as it was in the following year. In 1767, however, 
the ministry reasserted its right to make levies upon the colonists in a law relating 
to paper, glass, tea, etc. The duties on these articles with the exception of tea, were 
abolished in 1770 but without mollifying the public resentment. The people resolved 
to use no tea. At length in 1773 the East India Company was authorized to send 
a number of cargoes to America. Town meetings were held to declare that they should 
not be received. It was announced in October that the Polly, Captain Ayres, would 
bring the tea to Philadelphia. It was principally consigned to two solid Quaker firms, 
Thomas and Isaac Wharton and James and Drinker, who were asked to resign their 
offices as the stamp master had been, and promptly did so. Captain Ayres was 
threatened with tar and feathers by a mob. In the midst of the excitement an express 
arrived to announce that in Boston the tea had been thrown into the harbor. At last 
the "Polly" entered the Delaware. A committee went out to meet the Captain and 
he was brought up to the city. He was told that he must send his ship down the 
river on the next tide. He himself might remain in town until the next day, but only 
for the purpose of replenishing his stores for the return voyage to England. When 
he had learned of the temper of the people he complied wrlh the best grace he could 
command, and quiet returned for a little while to the city and the colony. 

CAST OF CHARACTERS 

Thomas Willing 

John Dickinson 

Dr. Benjamin Rush 

Robert Morris 

William Bradford 

Thomas Mifflin 

Charles Thomson I Citizens. 

Provost William Smith 

George Clymer 

Joseph Reed 

Samuel Powel 

John Nixon 

Thomas Fitzsimmons 

Elizabeth Drinker. 

Lydia Darragh. 

Mary Pemberton. 

Martha James. 

Margaret Morris. 

Rebecca James, a young girl. 

Thomas Wharton. 




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Prize Drawing by Miss E. Babcock 

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 



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Abel James. 

Deborah Franklin. 

Sarah Franklin Bache. 

Cafivmn Ayres, of the tea ship Polly. 

Pickle Herring, a clown, and other Fair Day characters. 

A crowd numbering about 300 persons. 

CHORUS 
Behold ! the sun is mounting to his noon : 

The city grows apace ; 
Yet Peace begins to pale and all too soon 

Shall veil her radiant face, — 
Shall veil for weary years her radiant face. 

The arena represents the market place at the time of the Autumn Fair — 
October, i^JS- ^ P^^^^ train and some cozvs zvith bells are seen. In the fore- 
ground Fair-day stalls and a mob tn'hich comes in in parties from both sides of 
the field, and in rvhieh may be seen types of citizens both rich and poor: — beaux 
and belles on horseback; German country girls on horses zvith panniers; Indians 
dancing and capering; paupers, Fair-day characters, a clozvn (Pickle Herring, 
Zi'ell knozim at the time in the colonies), gingerbread men, piemen, Punch-and- 
Judy shozvmen, some British soldiers of the Royal Irish Regiment (i8th) from 
the Barracks, Quakers, etc. 

Charles Thomson. — (To Bradford) It seems that our Dr. Franklin is making 
but little progress in regard to our weighty matters in England. 

Bradford. — From the news I had but now at the Coffee House, I well believe that 
his success hath been but middling. 

Rush. — Thou meanest about the detestable tea scheme. The drink made from 
that East Indian weed is assuredly now not often seen in this part of the 
King's dominion. I commend to my patients, mother of thyme with a little 
hyssop or some peppermint and yarrow. They brew as well. 

"Tea, how I tremble at the baneful name. 
Like Lethe fatal to the love of fame." 

Morris (coming up). — The affair is no subject for jest and it's like to come to a 
bitter end. I hear the ministry hath allowed the East India Company to 
despatch several cargoes of tea hither on which the tax is to be paid. 

Thomson. — That it will not be if my ears make correct report. 

Mifflin. — What hast thou heard? 

Thomson. — That the tea is to be sent back to England whence it comes. It shall 
get no landing here. The Whartons and Abel James have promised not 
to receive it. The Delaware pilots are threatened if they bring up the ship. 

Dickinson. — I trust all may be done without violence. 

Willing. — Yet must we keep our dignity, come what may. The tea may follow 
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Morris. — It is not to be thought on. The resolutions passed at the meeting in 
the State House yard were definite enough. The action of the ministry is 
a violent attack upon the liberties of America. 

Pickle Herring (unth a shrub labeled "Tea" which he sets doimi and 
addresses) . — Thou accursed China herb ! 

"How might we blush if our sires could see 
Our rights invaded by this shrub Bohea." 
Bohea tea ! see ! 
A party of sailors come rollicking along, one or tzvo seeming slightly tipsy. 
They shout "We never drink tea," and sing as they pass on: 
"Here's to the wind that blows 
To the ship that goes, 
And to the lass that loves a sailor." 

A citizen in a chaise draws near and calls for more toasts. He suggests one: 

"May Great Britain always be just and America always be free." (Loud 
Huzzas.) 

A Sailor (tipsy). — Liberty to mankind! (All laugh) 

A Citizen. — Here's to Paoli ! May the glorious spirit of Corsica animate 
America to the latest posterity. 

Abel James, one of the Quaker merchants to whom the tea is consigned, 
becomes the center of interest in the crowd. He promises that he will not receive 
his part of the cargo and offers his little daughter standing on a hogshead as a 
pledge of his good faith. There is a commotion in the crowd at right, as an 
Express comes in breathless. 

Express. — Hear ye all ! Captain Ay res in the teaship Polly hath just cast anchor 
in the Delaware ! 

Great excitement among the people. 

A Voice. — We'll tar and feather him and funnel his rotten tea down his throat. 
Many Voices. — Ay, ay! And the quicker the better. 
Voices. — Tar and feathers ! Tar and feathers ! 

A kettle of tar and an old feather bed are brought on the scene, and a pro- 
cession is formed marching to the music of a fife. 

Dickinson, (coming up hastily) Peace ! Peace ! Let us act orderly that our 

cause be not jeopardized. I pray ye use no violence. 
Voices. — Here he comes ! Here he comes ! Let's teach the villain a lesson ! 
Dickinson. — Peace! Peace! No violence. 

Captain Ayres comes in through a lane of people. Some boys hustle him 
but show no further indignity, being restrained by Dickinson, Willing, Mifflin 
and other leading citizens. 

A committee of four zvait upon him and inform him concerning the temper 
of the people, whereupon he agrees to depart, at which there is much huzzaing. 




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A mob which is formed carrying a large sign rudely painted, "No taxation 
without representation," sings: 

"Captain once more hoist your streamers 
Spread your sails and plow the wave! 
Tell your masters they were dreamers, 
When they thought to cheat the Brave." 

The crowd again surges out, the British troops being somewhat hustled but 
preserving good temper. The roistering sailors pass across the arena singing: 
"Here's to the wind that blows, 
To the ship that goes. 
And to the lass that loves a sailor." 

As the crozvd moves from the Held, the Chorus sings a song of the time in 
Philadelphia, ziritten by John Dickinson and sung to the tune of "Hearts of Oak." 

"Our worthy forefathers, let's give them a cheer. 
To climates unknown did courageously steer. 
Through oceans and deserts for freedom they came 
And dying bequeathed us their freedom and fame. 

Chorus 

"In freedom we're born 

And in freedom we'll live. 
Our purses are ready, 
Steady, friends, steady ! 
Not as slaves but as freemen 
Our money we'll give. 

"The tree their own hands had to Liberty reared 
They lived to behold growing strong and rever'd; 
With transport they cried, 'Now our wishes we gain. 
For our children shall gather the fruits of our pain.' 
Chorus 

"In freedom, etc. 

"Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all. 
By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. 
In so righteous a cause let us hope to succeed, 
For Heaven approves of each generous deed. 
Chorus 

"In freedom, etc. 

"All ages shall speak with amaze and applause 

Of the courage we'll show in support of our laws. 
To die we can bear, but to serve we disdain. 

For shame is to freemen more dreadful than pain." 
Chorus 

"In freedom, etc. 



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EPISODE III 

SCENE I 

HISTORICAL NOTE 

Events moved on apace. As a punishment for the destruction of the tea in the 
harbor at Boston, the port was declared to be closed to commerce. Warships were 
at hand to enforce the law. This act aroused the resentment of the other colonies. 
A Continental Congress convened in Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia in September, 
1774. On April 24 an express arrived announcing the Battle of Lexington. The 
people were aflame. Franklin came home from England on May 6, 177S. and a few 
days later the delegates to the second Continental Congress reached the city. The 
Virginians and other Southern delegates. George Washington among them, came on 
May 9, and the Eastern delegates, led by John Hancock, John Adams and Samuel 
Adams of the province of Massachusetts Bay, on whose soil the first blood had been 
shed, were welcomed on the following day. May 10. Companies of militiamen, or 
Associators as they were called, marched out to receive both cavalcades and escort them 
into the city. 

CAST OF CHARACTERS 

Southern Delegates: 
Colonel George Washington 
Patrick Henry 
Richard Henry Lee 

Edmund Pendleton [■ of Virginia. 

Benjamin Harrison 
Richard Bland 
Peyton Randolph 
Some Maryland and Carolina Deleg-ates. 

Caesar Rodney "1 

George Read > of Delaware. 

Thomas McKean J 

Eastern Delegates: 
John Hancock 
Thomas Gushing 
John Adams \- °^ Massachusetts Bay. 

Samuel Adams 
Robert Tre-\t Paine 

Other delei;ates from New England, New York and New Jersey. 

Benjamin Eranklin. 

Thomas Paine. 

Robert Morris. 

James Wilson. 

George Clymer. 

Betsy Ross. 










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Lydia Dakragh. 

John Dickinson >j 

Daniel Roberdeau ^Militia Colonels. 



John Cadwalader 

Irregular bodies of Associalors, with music. 

A mob of citizens. 

Tile areola represents the commons zvest of the tozvn in May, lyjS- ^^ great 
crowd of excited people. Recruiting sergeants at tables enrolling volunteers. 
John Dickinson, Daniel Roberdeau and John Cadzvalader, as Colonels, organising 
their several commands. Benjamin Franklin enters, escorted by Thomas Paine, 
Robert Morris, James Wilson, George Clymer and other Pennsylvanians. Two 
cavalcades appear, escorting the delegates. The first comes from the South, the 
second from New England. 

Enter with the Southern group, George Washington, Peyton Randolph, 
Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee and others. They are escorted by the new 
city militia oMcers, by citizens on horseback and by bodies of Associators. 

Enter zmth the Nezv England group, John Hancock and Samuel Adams 
in a phaeton and pair, John Adams and Thomas Gushing in a one-horse chaise, 
and others similarly escorted zmth music, moving at a "slozv and solemn pace." 

All proceed to the front of the Held, while bells are heard chiming from 
among the trees. The scene is animated plainly evidencing the excite- 
ment of a coming struggle. Marked attention is shozjm the delegates from Mas- 
sachusetts, the opening ground of the war. They are loudly acclaimed. There 
is an impressive meeting betzveen the New Englanders and Franklin, who, when 
the cavalcade reaches him, becomes the centre of attention. 

Franklin. — (Solemnly.) Mars seems to have established his empire among us. 
John Adams. — The time has come for us to defend with arms our property, our 

liberty and our lives. 
Voices.— Colonel Washington! Washington! Washington! Let Washington 

lead our troops to avenge the blood of Lexington. 

Washington acknowledges the salutation by bowing in a dignified zvay. 
Franklin now comes forward and is again the centre of the scene, zuhile the Chorus 
sings 

CHORUS 

To-day we look upon the studious men 
Who from the Junto grew to stature tall 

In philosophic thought, and once again 
Across the vears the name of Franklin call. 



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I SEMI-CHORUS (Remembrance) 

Back to the yesterdays we turn; once more 

Turn from sweet Peace, with smiHng- summer eyes, 
To meet the darkling frown of horrid War, 
Hateful amid his scarlet panoplies. 
Thro' the dim twilight comes the roll 

Of Braddock's drums, while, faint and clear. 

The fife's high treble falls ; 
And marching feet press towards the goal. 

The inhospitable frontier. 

And lo! we find commanding here 

Him who to duty's calls 
Is never deaf, — the valiant soul. 

The heart which naught appals, — 

The soldier and the seer. 



II SEMI-CHORUS (Aspiration) 

While freemen fight that still they may be free, 

Hurling defiance back to arrogance. 
The brain of Franklin still shall find the key 

To unlock the heart of France. 
He with persuasive voice and facile pen 

Shall plead the virtues of his country's cause, 
Winning with eloquence. 
Battles more fraught with consequence than when 
Sword meets with bloody sword and patriots pause 
For swift attack or obstinate defense. 



CHORUS 

Back to the city of their love, where Penn, 

Proclaiming full release 
From fetters of the conscience, had begun 
Man's noblest struggle for the rights of men, — 
Resplendent in the light of great deeds done, — 
Shall come the fairest fruitage of sweet Peace, — 
Franklin the seer, — the patriot Washington. 

As the Chorus concludes, the crozvd passes off and clears the field zvhich 
is prepared for the next scene. 




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SCENE II 

HISTORICAL NOTE 

The Congress was in session constantly in the last months of 1775 and in 1776. 
On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee, of Virginia, in obedience to instructions from 
his colony, offered the following resolutions: 

"Resolved that these united colonies are and of right ought to be free and inde- 
pendent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown and 
that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is and ought 
to be totally dissolved." 

On June 11, a committee of five members, consisting of Thomas Jefferson of Vir- 
ginia, John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Roger 
Sherman of Connecticut and R. R. Livingston of New York, was appointed to frame 
a Declaration of Independence. On July 2, Lee's motion was adopted, and that day, 
it was believed by John Adams, would be "celebrated by succeeding generations as 
the great anniversary festival commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn 
acts of devotion to God Almighty from one end of the continent to the other, from 
this time forward forevermore." The language of the Declaration was now discussed 
by the Congress. It was approved on July 4, which soon became the day for popular 
anniversary observances. On July 8 the Declaration was read by John Nixon from 
the observatory in the State House Yard, and the bells were rung. 



CAST OF CHARACTERS 
John Nixon. 
Thomas Jefferson 
Benjamin Franklin 
John Adams 
Roger Sherman 
R. R. Livingston 

Other members of the Congress. 

Isaac Hunt (father of Leigh Hunt). 

Betsy Ross. 

Lydia Darragh. 

Sarah Franklin Bache. 

Deborah Norris. 

Sally Wister. 

Polly Fishbourne. 

A mob of citizens. 

Companies of Associators. 

The scene shows the State House Yard crowded with Colonials. Isaac Hunt 
(a Tory) paraded in a cart to the music of "The Rogue's March," the crozvd hoot- 
ing. Hunt is made to stand up hi the cart and express his "extreme pain and regret 
at having viliiied Congress," amid mingled jeers and cheers. 

A hand of Associators enter zvith th-e King's arms, which they have 'torn 
dozim- in the State House and proceed to hum. 

From the platform, John Nixon, surrounded hy niemhers of Congress, is read- 
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heads of three young Quaker misses, Debby A'orris, Sally IVister and Polly Fish- 
bourne, rise above the wall on Fifth Street surrounding the gardens of the Norris 
mansion. At the conclusion of the reading the State House bell is heard pealing 
forth "Liberty through all the land — unto all the inhabitants thereof." Christ 
Church and other bells join in the celebration. 

The Philadelphia Associators composed of three battalions of infantry, under 
Colonels Dickinson, Roberdeau and Cadtvalader, march in and are drawn up on 
dress parade. During their evolutions the Chorus sings: 



THE PENNSYLVANIA MARCH 
(Tune: "I winna marry any mon but Sandy o'er the lea.") 

"We are the troops that ne'er will stoop 

To wretched slavery, 
Nor shall our seed by our base deed 

Despised vassals be. 
Freedom we will bequeath to them 

Or we will bravely die, 
Our greatest foe e'er long shall know 

How much did Sandwich* lie. 

"What! Can those British tyrants think 

Our fathers crossed the main 
And savage foes and dangers met 

To be enslaved again? 
If so they are mistaken much 

For we will rather die, 
And since they have become our foes 

Their forces we defy." 

There is great enthusiasm. "Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flozv" 
is sung by the Chorus supported by the band, the music being punctuated by the 
firing of cannon and the pealing of bells. 

♦Lord Sandwich, who had said that the Americans would not fight. 




Drawing for a British Uniform 

By Charles ffoulkes 

3d Foot Guards (Scots) 

Officer 

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EPISODE IV 



SCENE I 

HISTORICAL NOTE 

The advance of the British army upon Philadelphia, the capital of the Colonies, 
was feared late in 1776. Congress, the Pennsylvania Assembly and many families fled 
for safety. The operations of Washington's army around Trenton at Christmas time 
led to a feeling of reassurance in the city and those who had departed gradually returned. 
The alarm was renewed in August, 1777, when it was announced that a large fleet had 
sailed from New York. Its destination was probably the Delaware River. Washington 
moved his positions restlessly and at last when it was clear that the ships had entered 
the Chesapeake instead of the Delaware and that the troops would be landed on the 
banks of the Elk River, he started on his way south. The ragged regiments passed 
through Philadelphia with twigs of green in their caps on August 24th, making the 
best appearance possible in order to create a favorable impression on the minds of the 
inhabitants. They met the British army which was commanded by Sir William 
Howe, on the field of Brandywine in Chester County, near the Maryland line, on 
September 11, and were defeated. The noise of the guns was distinctly heard in 
Philadelphia and the people again sought safety in flight. Howe moved forward and 
on September 22d, he established his camp in Germantown. On September 26th, 
Cornwallis with a considerable body of troops came down the Second street road 
and entered Philadelphia. Washington meanwhile planned another battle. He had 
been manoeuvering at the Schuylkill fords. On October 4th, his scouts drove in the 
British outposts at Mount Airy, and Wayne, Sullivan and Conway pressed the troops 
into the village. They were soon in collision with the Tenth and Fortieth Regiments 
and the Second Battalion of Light Infantry. Lieutenant-Colonel Musgrave of the 
Fortieth Regiment in his flight placed a body of his men in "Cliveden," the fine stone 
country house of Chief Justice Chew, and this became a critical point in the ensuing 
battle. A considerable part of the American forces passed on to engage other bodies 
of the British. More might well have done so. The fogs of October, the smoke of 
the guns and the misunderstanding among the American generals led at length to a 
precipitous retreat. Musgrave held his position against a siege of cannon, sharp 
musketry firing and incendiaries until he was relieved near the end of the engagement 
by General Grey. 

CAST OF CHARACTERS 

Americans: 

General Washington. 

General Wayne. 

Generals Sullivan, Armstrong, Conway, Knox, Maxwell, Greene, Reed, 

Smallwood, Muhlenberg, and others. 
Captain Allan McLane, with a party of his riders. 
Three or four hundred American troops of different commands. 

British: 

Sir William Howe. 
General Knyphausen ("Old Knyp"). 
Colonel Musgrave, of the 40th Regiment. 
Generals Grey, Agnew, Grant, Mathew, etc. 

The Fortieth Regiment, the Second Light Infantry and other bodies of British 
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CHORUS 

We stand to-day upon the sacred soil 

Trodden of patriot feet when war's alarms 
Flung their rude summons on the ears of toil 

From far across the brown and sunlit farms. 

I SEAII-CHORUS (Remembrance) 

Here stood pale Kelpius, fleeing from the stress 

Of this fair world's alluring comradeships, 
Where the sad Woman-in-the- Wilderness 

Waited her radiant Lord's apocalypse. 
Pastorius the learned and austere, 

Bringing his gift of tongues to quell each strife, 
And with his words of comfort oft to cheer 

The grim privations of a pilgrim's life. 
So from the pages of the storied past 

We glean the lesson of work well begun, 
And as our lives a longer shadow cast, 

Learn deeper reverence for the men who won 
From hard inhospitable rocks the means 

To rear the hearthstones of our stalwart sires 
And plant a standard mid Earth's shifting scenes 

And Life's elusive and inconstant fires. 

H SEMI-CHORUS (Aspiration) 

And there shall come an echo on the air 

Of Musgrave's volleys and the iron roar 
Of Conway's guns pounding their answer there 

On window barred and barricaded door. 
And soon the roadways of the startled town. 

Shall gleam with bayonets glinting in the sun, 
And we shall hear the horsemen charging down. 

Obedient to the word of Washington. 

CHORUS 

And tho' the mists of gathering years may blot 
Each scutcheon and each hallowed shrine profane. 

No noble word is ever quite forgot 

Nor any high ideal wrought out in vain. 

The Scene is set with the Chezu House at one side of the Held. Statues are 
disposed upon the laimi. A British Light Infantry sentry is seen in middle dis- 
tance, walking hack and forth. From the left, a relief party approaches the sen- 
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Washington, Wayne and other American Generals advancing. They ride up and 
dismount for a conference near the front of the Held. They mount again and 
retire rapidly to rear and out of sight. 

A body of British Light Infantry now appear and form in "open or'der." 
Wayne comes forzvard z(.nth his men. The battle begins by sounding the Light 
Infantry drum. Wayne keeps advaiicing and driving the British before him, his 
men shouting, "Have at the bloodhounds. Remember Paoli." The Fortieth 
Regiment is brought forzvard to support the Light Infantry. General Hozjue rides 
up and shouts, "For shame Light Infantry. I never sazv you retreat before." But 
the retreat continues. The Fortieth Regiment takes refuge in the Chezv House. 
They close the shutters of the house on the first story and barricade the doors. 
The red coats are seen at the upper-story zvindozvs. Some appear upon the roof. 
The Americans stop to survey the improvised fort and send out Lieutenant- 
Colonel Smith zvith a zvhite flag, summoning the "garrison" to surrender. Smith 
is shot dozjt^n and a general engagement is begun betzveen the British at the zmn- 
dozi's and the Americans disposed upon the lazmi. A log is brought up and an 
effort is made to batter in the front door. The Chevalier Duplessis and John 
Laurens go for strazv and attempt to set Hre to the house. They are beaten back 
and return to the American lines. Some small guns are brought up for a bom- 
bardment. 

The Fortieth Regiment hi the Jiouse is relieved at length by the men from the 
Seventeenth and Forty-fourth Regiments under General Grey. As the Americans 
retire, General Agnezv is seen to fall from his horse. He is caught by some sol- 
diers standing near and placed in a litter. The Sixteenth Light Dragoons appear 
and follozv the British Foot off the Held. 

SCENE II 

HISTORICAL NOTE 

It is credibly asserted that Sir William Howe, thinking that the battle of German- 
town would result in his defeat, had planned a retreat to Chester. The retirement of 
the Americans from this ill-managed engagement to camps at a greater distance from 
the city (at a little later date to Valley Forge), led to Howe's resolution to remain 
in Philadelphia. The city offered him a pleasant winter rendezvous. He and his 
officers quartered themselves in the best Quaker homes. The public buildings became 
hospitals, barrack rooms and stables. The entire city was soon converted into an 
armed camp for upwards of thirty British regiments, and large auxiliary bodies of 
German and Loyalist troops. Many Tories accompanied the army to occupy the 
houses and shops of the Whigs who had sought safer retreats. 

CAST OF CHARACTERS 

The trocps used irx the first scene, together with the Forty-second Highlanders 
("Black Watch"), Hessian Jaegers, Queen's Rangers, etc. 

TJie Forty-second Highlanders are seen marching and countermairching, to 
the music of the pipers. The Queen's Rangers, a Tory Regiment under command 
of Lieutenant-Colonel Simcoe, and other bodies of British soldiery appear and go 
dozvn to the river to receive Sir William Hozve and Lord Hozije, zvho are assembled 
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SCENE III 

HISTORICAL NOTE 

While Washington and his troops suffered the gravest hardships among the hills 
at Valley Forge, Howe and his army were comfortably ensconced in Philadelphia. 
The river was opened to the British fleet, and Admiral Lord Howe (Sir William 
Howe's brother) came up with large quantities of supplies. The j^oung ofticers found 
a welcome in the city's Tory homes, and the winter was marked by much social gayety. 
"Assemblies, concerts, clubs and the like," wrote a captain of the Hessian Jaegers, 
"make us forget there is any war save that it is a capital joke." Sir William Howe's 
indolence at length led to his recall, and just prior to the taking of the resolve to 
evacuate the city he was superseded in command by Sir Henry Clinton. His brother 
oflficers, led by the ill-fated Andre, in token of their esteem, arranged, before his 
departure, a noteworthy festival which they called the Mischianza, or more properly 
the Meschianza (an Italian word meaning a medley), for May i8, 1778. It included 
a regatta on the Delaware River participated in by "swarms" of decorated boats, a 
tournament at "Walnut Grove," some distance south of the city, the home of Joseph 
Wharton, a wealthy Quaker merchant, and in the evening, a ball, a supper, and an 
elaborate exhibition of fireworks. 

CAST OF CHARACTERS 

Sir William Howe. 

Lord Howe. 

Sir Henry Clinton. 

Lord Cornwallis. 

General Knyphausen. 

Other British officers, grenadiers, dragoons, chasseurs, etc. 

Sir John Wrottlesley, Colonel O'Hara, Major Gardiner and Captain J. F. 

Montresor, managers of the Meschianza. 
Major Gwynne, Marshal of the Field. 

Knights of the Blended Rose (White Knights): 

Lord Cathcart of the 17th Dragoons, chief knight, with two esquires and 

slaves. 
Hon. Captain Cathcart of the 23rd Regiment, first knight, with one esquire. 
Lieutenant Bygrove of the i6th Dragoons, second knight, with one esquire. 
Captain John Andre of the 26th Regiment, third knight, with one esquire. 
Captain Horneck of the Guards, fourth knight, with one esquire. 
Captain Matthews of the 41st Regiment, fifth knight, with one esquire. 
Lieutenant Sloper of the 17th Dragoons, sixth knight, with one esquire. 
Herald. 
Trumpeters. 

Knights of the Burning Mountain (Black Knights): 

Captain Watson of the Guards, chief knight, with two esquires and slaves. 
Lieutenant Underwood of the loth Regiment, first knight, with one esquire. 
Lieutenant Winyard of the 64th Regiment, second knight, with one esquire. 
Lieutenant Delaval of the 4th Regiment, third knight, with one esquire. 
M. Montluissant of the Hessian Chasseurs, fourth knight, with one esquire. 







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Lieutenant Hobart, of the 7th Reg-iment, fifth knight with one esquire. 

Brigade-Major Tarleton, sixth knight, with one esquire. 

Herald. 

Trumpeters. 

Ladies of the Blended Rose: 

Miss Auchmuty, chief knight's lady. 
Miss Nancy White, first lady. 
Miss Jane Craig, second lady. 
Miss Peggy Chew, third lady. 
Miss Nancy Redman, fourth lady. 
Miss Williamina Bond, fifth lady. 
Miss Mary Shippen, sixth lady. 

Ladies of the Burning Mountain: 

Miss Rebecca Franks, chief knight's lady. 

Miss Sarah Shippen, first lady. 

Miss Peggy Shippen (afterwards Mrs. Benedict Arnold) second lady. 

Miss Becky Bond, third lady. 

Miss Becky Redman, fourth lady. 

Miss Sophia Chew, fifth lady. 

Miss Williamina Smith, sixth lady. 

A company of spectators drawn from the Tory families of the city. 

The scene shozvs the gardens surrounding the Wharton House, "Walnut 
Grove." Tzuo arches lead to the river, one a naval arch dedicated to Lord Howe, 
the other a military arch dedicated to Sir William Howe. Between them is the 
tilting ground, lined with troops. At each side a pavilion for the tivo parties 
of ladies in whose honor the tournament is given and for the officers and other 
spectators. The tzvo parties of ladies enter from the house. The General and 
the Admiral with their retinues, headed by music, come up from the river through 
a double file of Grenadiers, supported by horse, under the standards of th& 
several regiments, and take their places. They are greeted zvith plaudits, the 
ladies scattering Hozvers before them and the troops presenting arms. The sound 
of trumpets is heard. The trumpeters enter the quadrangle followed by the 
herald and the seven knights of the Blended Rose, mounted on white horses, zvith 
their esquires. The procession moves around the Held saluting the ladies. 

White Herald. — The Knights of the Blended Rose, by me their Herald pro- 
claim and assert that the Ladies of the Blended Rose excel in wit. beauty 
and every accomplishment those of the whole world, and should any knight 
or knights be so hardy as to dispute or deny it, they are ready to enter 
the lists with them and maintain their assertions by deeds of arms, accord- 
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Three times he makes the proclamation from different parts of the field. 
Trumpets are heard again, announcing the Black Herald tvho parleys with the 
White Herald. He orders his trumpets to sound and proclaims defiance to the 
challenge. 

Black Herald.— The Knights of the Burning Mountain ^nter these lists not to 
contend with words, but to disprove by deeds of arms, the vainglorious 
assertions of the Knights of the Blended Rose, and to show that the ladies 
of the Burning Mountain as far excel all others in charms as the knights 
themselves surpass all others in prowess. 

Going out, he brings in the Black Knights all mounted on black horses, who 
ride around the field, saluting the ladies. They drazv up in front of the White 
Knights. The chief of the White Knights having thrown dozvn his gauntlet, the 
chief of the Black Knights orders his esquire to take it up. The knights are 
presented with their shields and lances by their esquires. The trumpets sound 
the charge. At the first meeting the lances are shivered; at the second and third 
charges, pistols are fired; at the fourth, swords are used. Then the chief knights 
of the opposing sides. Lord Cathcart and Captain Watson, ride to the centre of 
the field and engage in single combat with their swords until parted by the 
Marshal zvho rushes upon the field. 

Marshal Gwynne. — Your fair ladies command you to desist from further com- 
bat as you prize their future favors. They are perfectly satisfied with the 
proofs of your love. 

The knights nozv form a line, each black knight beside a zvhite knight in 
token of the restoration of friendship. They ride in front of the stands, each 
saluting his lady. Flozvers are shozvered upon them. 

The bands play and all sing "God Save the King." The officers, ladies and 
guests pass into the house, and so leave the field. The troops pass off in the 
ether direction. 




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EPISODE V 

HISTORICAL NOTE 

Franklin left Philadelphia on October 26, 1776, accredited as one of the American 
ambassadors to the court of France. His associates were Silas Deane and Arthur Lee. 
Congress had the hope of presenting the cause of the Colonies in such a light that 
the King would enter the war as an ally. An old rival of England on the American 
continent, a traditional enemy in Europe, it would be easy, it was conceived, to secure 
assistance in that quarter. Franklin remained at Paris for nine years. From the 
beginning he outshone his colleagues. His fame had preceded him. His tactful 
conduct increased his vogue and his mission became one of the most remarkable in 
the history of diploniacj-. He was a favorite at court and the idol of the people. 
His personality made him a principal influence in bringing about the treaty which, 
after the Battle of Germantown and the surrender of Burgoyne, was concluded between 
France and the United States. He and his associates were received at court in March, 
1778, when the alliance was publicly avowed and celebrated. He enjoyed another 
notable reception in April, 1779, in testimony of his appointment as the sole American 
plenipotentiary to France. It was on this occasion, according to tradition, that a 
lady of the court placed a wreath of laurel upon his brow (celebrated in the familiar 
picture at the court of France), but he was the recipient of so much attention of this 
kind at Versailles and elsewhere during his residence abroad that it is difficult to 
assign the scene which follows to a particular date. 

CAST OF CHARACTERS 

Louis XVI, King of France. 
Marie Antoinette, Queen of France. 
Princess Lamballe, her friend. 
Count de Vergennes, Minister of Foreign Affairs. 

Ministers and nobles, ladies of honor, ladies in waiting, and other ladies of the 
Court. , 

Benjamin Franklin. 
Swiss Guards in their ancient dress, French soldiers, priests, etc. 

CHORUS 

Hail ! Franklin, ambassador, brother, 

Philosopher, patriot, hail ! 
The love of our lands for each other 

Is a light that shall never turn pale. 

We bow to the roses of beauty. 

We drink to the fruit of the vine, 
But our paramount love is for our duty, — 

For the strength of the oak and pine. 

Our songs with all joys are a-quiver, 

Yet find their fruition in thee 
As the silvery laugh of the river 

Grows still in the calm of the sea. 

Hail ! Franklin, ambassador, brother, 
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The scene shows the ornamental gardens at Versailles. The King and Queen 
with their retinue enter. The priests cry, "Vivat Rex in aeternum!" Cries of 
"Vive Louis!" "Vive Antoinette !" "Long Live the King!" Franklin enters 
in a sedan chair, with two or three attendants, luhile the zifhite lily-dotted 
flag of the France of the Bourbons is lowered in salute. There are crieisf 
of "Vive Franklin!" "Vive rambassadeur des treise provinces unies!" "Vive 
I' Amerique !" "Vive le grand Franklin!" He steps from his sedan leaning upon 
a staff. With long grey locks unpowdered and his simple dress, he is welcomed 
cts a kind of new Solon or Lycurgus. He is received by the King and Queen. 
A lady places a wreath upon his head and kisses his cheek. TIte ladies and their 
gentlemen attendants dance a minuet. 



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EPISODE VI 



SCENE I 



HISTORICAL NOTE 



The bonds which held the states together after the Revolution were weak; they 
grew weaker as the enthusiasm of war subsided and made way for the interests and 
tasks of peace. During the summer of 1787, a convention of delegates from the states 
met at the State House under the presidency of General Washington and framed a 
Constitution. It was adopted on September 17th and was sent out at once to be 
ratified. It should become effective when nine states approved it. Delaware voted 
m its favor on December 7th, Pennsylvania on December 12th and New Jersey on 
December 13th. These three states were followed by Georgia, Connecticut, Massachu- 
set'ts, Maryland and South Carolina in the order named. The ninth state to ratify 
the Constitution was New Hampshire on June 21, 1788. Arrangements were at once 
begun for a celebration in Philadelphia for the 4th of July, 1788. Before that time 
news was received that Virginia, the tenth state, had approved the work of the 
Convention. Only North Carolina, New York and Rhode Island remained out of the 
Union. The celebration took the form of a well planned parade through the streets 
called the Federal Procession. Two structures, the Grand Federal Edifice or "New 
Roof , showing 13 columns, three of which were incomplete, and the Federal Ship 
Union built upon the lines of a frigate of the day, were marked objects. Many 
prominent citizens rode and walked in the procession which was dispersed at "Union 
Green upon the grounds of "Bush Hill", the Hamilton mansion northwest of the 
city. Here James Wilson delivered an oration and there were other appropriate 
ceremonies. 



CAST OF CHARACTERS 



John Nixon 

Thomas Fitzsimmons 

George Clymer 

Colonel John Shee 

Richard Bache 

Peter Muhlenberg 

Chief Justice McKean 

Judge William Augustus Atlee 

Judge Jacob Rush | 

Duncan Ingraham, New Hampshire 

Jonathan Williams, Jr., Massachusetts 

Jared Ingersoll, Connecticut 

Samuel Stockton, New Jersey 

James Wilson, Pennsylvania 

Col. 'Thomas Robinson, Delaware 

J. E. Howard, Maryland 

Col. Febiger, Virginia 

W. Ward Burrows, South Carolina 

George Meade, Georgia 



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of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 
in their robes of office. 



Representatives of the ten rati- 
fying states walking arm in arm 
with flags. 



Representatives of the citizens at large to whom the 
Constitution was committed by the Convention of 1787 
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Hilary Baker 

George Latimer 

John Wharton 

John Nesbitt 

Samuel Morris 

John Brown 

Tench Francis 

Joseph Anthony 

John Chaloner 

Benjamin Fuller 

Colonel William Williams in armor. 

Consuls and representatives of powers in Philadelphia in friendly relations with 

the United States, — France, United Netherlands, Sweden, Prussia and 

Morocco. 
Thomas Bell who bears a flag of the United States. 
A citizen and an Indian chief smoking the calumet of peace. 
William Hamilton, the proprietor of "Bush Hill." 
Pelatiah Webster, merchant, economist and pamphleteer. 
Twelve axemen. 
Members of trade bodies in the procession, citizens, etc. 

The Chorus renders the ode composed hy Francis Hopkinson in honor of the 
ratiUcation of the Constitution: 

"Oh! for a muse of fire to mount the skies, 

And to a listening world proclaim — 
Behold ! behold ! an empire rise ! 
An era new. Time as he flies, 

Hath entered in the book of Fame. 
On Alleghany's tow'ring head 
Echo shall stand — the tidings spread. 
And o'er the lakes and misty floods around 

An era new resound. 
See where Columbia sits alone. 
And from her star-bespangled throne 
Beholds the gay procession move along, 
And hears the trumpet and the choral song. 

She hears her sons rejoice — 
Looks into future times, and sees 
The num'rous blessings Heav'n decrees, 
And with her plaudit, joins the general voice. 
Hail to this festival ! — all hail the day ! 
Columbia's standard on her roof display ; 
And let the people's motto ever be : 
'United thus, and thus united, free !' " 



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The scene shoivs the space called "Union Green'' in front of Hamilton's 
"Bush Hill." Disposed upon the Held, are the Federal Ship Union completely 
manned and the "New Roof" or Grand Federal Edifice zvith its thirteen Corinthian 
columns, three of which are incomplete, to indicate that three states yet remain out 
of the Union. 

The ten gentlemen who occupy chairs under the dome and zvho represent 
the citizens at large, vacate them and surrender their places to the ten repre- 
sentatives of the states zvho had earlier zvalked arm in arm in the procession. 
The states are nozv declared to be "in unison" amid loud huz::as. Each delegate 
who enters the temple hangs the Hag zvhich he carried in the procession, upon 
its appropriate column. Ten toasts in honor of the ten states are announced by 
trumpet and are followed by a discharge of artillery. 



SCENE II 

HISTORICAL NOTE 

George Washington was elected President and John Adams Vice-President of the 
Union which was established under the Constitution. Congress met and the govern- 
ment was started on its way in New York in April, 1789. It was soon resolved to 
place the capital in Philadelphia where it was to remain for ten years until a site 
could be prepared for a new city on the banks of the Potomac in the District of 
Columbia. Washington took up his residence in Philadelphia in November, 1790, and 
Congress met here a few days later. The President was everywhere acclaimed as 
"the hero of the Western world," and was the mark for many popular demonstrations. 
His arrival from and his departure for his "seat" in Virginia, his birthday, the Fourth 
of July and other occasions received ceremonious observance. The scene which 
follows represents the President at Gray's Gardens at Gray's Ferry, a handsomely 
embellished pleasure ground on the high road to the South, where he was so frequently 
a guest. 

CAST OF CHARACTERS 

George Washington. 

Mrs. Washington. 

John Adams. 

Mrs. Adams. 

Alexander Hamilton. 

Thomas Jefferson. 

Robert Morris. 

Mrs. AIorris. 

William Bingham. 

Mrs. Bingham. 

Thomas Mifflin, President of Pennsylvania. 

Thomas McKean, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania. 

Major William Jackson. 

Other officers of the Federal and State Governments ; ladies and gentlemen of 

Philadelphia. 
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The scene is Gray's Gardens early in Washington's first administration. 

"All love their ozmi Schuylkill's romantic soft tide 
And pay their devotion at Gray's." 

Tea tables are set upon the green. A "Federal Temple" composed of an arch 
of twelve stones, one for each of the colonies already in the Union and a keystone 
for Rhode Island zvhich has just ratified the Constitution. The Federal Ship 
"Union" zvhich zuas used in the Federal Procession in lySS and for several years 
afterzvard zcas a popular attraction at Gray's Gardens. The ladies and gentle- 
men representing the best Colonial society at the "Republican Court" enter and 
azvait the arrival of Washington. He comes on a zvhite charger. Mrs. Wash- 
ington rides in the famous family coach. When the President is seen, the band 
strikes up "Washington's March." As he dismounts "God Save Great Washing- 
ton" set to the tune of "God Save the King" is sung. The crozmd shouts "Long 
Live Great Washington!" "Long live the Father of his Country!" Children 
zvave a zvelcome from the ship "Union" zvhich is entzvined zvith French and 
American flags. Thirteen young men dressed as shepherds and thirteen young 
zvomen dressed as shepherdesses come out of the grove and proceed to the 
"Federal Temple" zuhere the keystone is put in place in honor of the ratification 
of Rhode Island. The Federal salute of thirteen guns is fired. 



SCENE III 

HISTORICAL NOTE 

As Washington's administration advanced the radicals allowed their sympathies 
for France, where the course of affairs underwent direful changes daily, to run away 
with their good sense. The Bastille fell in 1789, the year in which our republic was 
being established. Louis XVI was beheaded in January, 1793, and Marie Antoinette 
went to the guillotine in October, 1793. The birthday of the King of France was 
celebrated in Philadelphia no longer. France, too, would be a republic like the 
United States. Frenchmen as well as Americans would be free and equal — brothers 
of one great family. They had helped us to gain our liberties; we must now aid 
them. The first French republican minister to the United States was Citizen Edmund 
Charles Genet. He landed at Charleston, S. C, from a French frigate, "L' Ambus- 
cade," in April, 1793. The vessel came up the Delaware on May 2, with the bonnet rouge 
at its topmasts. Genet meanwhile proceeded northward overland, arousing the sym- 
pathies of the people along the way. He reached Gray's Ferry on May i6th, where 
he was welcomed by a crowd of citizens. The city went French mad, and the excite- 
ment continued for several years. Mobs of men, women and children, Americans, 
Frenchmen and West Indians, white, yellow and black, aimed to move Washington, 
John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Robert Morris and the Federalists from the position 
of neutrality on the subject of French matters in Europe which they had assumed. 
The scene is a representation of one of several similar civic festivals in the French 
republican interest in the streets and squares, on the commons and in the pleasure 
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CAST OF CHARACTERS 

Citizen Edmund Charles Genet, Minister Plenipotentiary from the Republic 

of France. 
M. DE Ternant, the French Minister Resident under the monarchy. 
M. DE LA Forest, the Consul-general of France. 
Their secretaries and attendants. 
Citizen Bompard, commanding officer of the "L' Ambuscade," the French 

frigate, in the harbor, with a party of naval officers and sailors. 
David Rittenhouse. 
Charles Biddle. 
Jonathan D. Sergeant. 
p. s. duponceau. 
James Hutchinson. 
A. J. Dallas. 
Thomas Leiper. 
Mathew Carey. 
Michael Leib. 

Other leading citizens of French sympathies. 
A mob of men, women and children in which many French people are seen. 

CHORUS 

Liberty glorious ! in thy name 

What crimes are wreaked on human kind ! 
Equality ! what brands of shame, 

Forged from thy seal, burn reason blind ! 
Fraternity, that still should be 

The countersign of man to man, 
Alas ! that men should find in thee 

Excuse to thwart God's noblest plan ! 

The scene is the ground at Centre Square where an obelisk is set up bearing 
inscriptions zvhich indicate its dedication to liberty. The crowd enters to the 
music of "Yankee Doodle" zvhich soon changes to "Ca Ira." 

Boys and girls take their places around the pedestal. Men zvaJk two and 
tzi'o zi'ith oak boughs in their hands; women zv-ith Hozvers zvhich they strezv 
around the pedestal. The crozvd displays great animation, the boys and girls 
dancing, men g'z^ing each other the "fraternal embrace," calling each other "Citi- 
zen'' and shouting "Vive la Republique!" "Live Free or Die!" etc. 

The Scene is made gay zvith the American Hag and the French trir-color. 
Men and zvomen exhibit the tri-colored cockade in their hats and at their breasts. 
Some zvear the red cap of liberty or hold it aloft on pike-staffs. Wlun "Ca Ira" 

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is finished the orchestra plays "La Carmagnole." Men and women now join 
hands and dance around liberty trees. One takes off his scarlet liberty cap and 
tosses it upon the ground; a crowd dances around it. As Genet enters, accom- 
panied by Bompard and the sailors, he is given a wild welcome. 

The crowd takes up the refrain and shouts, "Citizen Genet!" "The Republic 
of France!" "The rights of Man!" A crowd at one side of the Held cries, 
"Long live the Friends of Liberty!" and another at the other side of the field 
responds, "Long Live the Friends of Liberty!" Fifteen guns boom the Federal 
salute from the river (Vermont and Kentucky having by this time joined the 
thirteen States in the Union.) The crozvd after a zvhile seizes Genet mid he is 
carried off on their shoulders through the imod towards the river, singing the 
"Marseillaise." 

CHORUS 

"Ye sons of France, awake to glory, 

Hark ! Hark ! What myriads bid thee rise. 
Your children, wives and grandsires hoary, 

Behold their tears and hear their cries. 
Shall hateful tyrants mischief breeding 

With hireling hosts, a ruffian band. 

Affright and desolate the land, 
While peace and liberty lie bleeding? 

To arms ! To arms ! ye brave ! 

Th' avenging sword unsheath ! 
March on ! March on ! All hearts resolved 

On victory or death !" 

As the sound dies aipay in the distance the chords of a stately chant are 
heard, and the Chorus sings. 

CHORUS 

Land of a thousand hills. 

Land of far rolling plains. 

Think of thy destiny, noble, uplifting, — 

Think of thy mother's pangs. 

Dear land of liberty, 

Think of the patriot blood 

Shed at thy birthing. 

Tlien shall thy soul abhor 

License that murders shame, 

Then shall thy vision clear 

See what a gulf divides 

License from Liberty. 



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SEMI-CHORUS (Remembrance) 

Dream of the days that lent 
Sunlight and life to thee. 



SEMI-CHORUS (Aspiration) 

Hope for the days to come, 
Regal, resplendent. 



CHORUS 

Dream of the days that were, 
Hope for the days to come. 
Land of a thousand hills, 
Dear land of Liberty! 

As the last lines are sung the figure of President Washington, mounted as 
in the last scene, appears at one side of the field. He brings his steed to a full 
stop and looks toward the river. He is espied by the rear guurd of the mob. 
Many turn, and, running, crowd around him. Recovering their mental aplomb, 
they cheer him lustily. He rides up the field and moves off to the strains of the 
"President's March." 



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EPISODE VII 

HISTORICAL NOTE 

The establishment of a national feeling was difficult until after a second_ war 
with Great Britain. French and English sympathies which had formed a dividing 
ground for parties for years then made way for a strong native sentiment and for 
some purely American ideals. Embargoes and non-intercourse acts, outrages upon 
shipping at sea led in 1812 to open hostilities. Armed vessels went out and came 
in to the Delaware. The heroes of sea battles were honored by the people. The town 
of Lewes was bombarded in 1813 and some companies of volunteers under Brigadier 
General Joseph Bloomfield started south to protect the approaches of the city. The 
news of the landing of the army, the sack of Washington and the advance upon 
Baltimore in the next year created the greatest excitement. Able-bodied citizens 
went out each morning to work upon the redoubts which were planned to guard 
the southern roads. The militiamen, formed into picturesque companies, — promment 
among which was one still in existence at this day, the State Fencibles— went into camp 
ready for duty at need. At last the unsuccessful bombardment of Fort McHenry and 
the defeat of the invading army near Baltimore caused great rejoicing and Phila- 
delphia was safe. 

CAST OF CHARACTERS 

General Edmund Pendleton Gaines. 

General Bloomfield. 

General Thomas Cadwalader. 

General Isaac Worrell. 

Colonel Clement C. Biddle. 

Stephen Girard. 

David Parish, and other citizens. 

Messengers. 

State Fencibles, Washington Guards, and other miHtia companies. 

A mob of men, women and children. 

CHORUS 

Once more to arms the country calls, 

Once more o'er fertile plain and mountain, 
Hark ! how the martial summons falls 

Athwart the visage of each placid fountain. 
Up freemen in your might 
For God and for the right 
Drive out the foe. 

The arena represents a square in the city. The scene is suggested by one of 
Krimmcl's pictures of a Philadelphia crozvd at this period. Military companies are 
marching and there is much commotion. Prominent among these are the nezdy 
formed State Fencibles and the Washington Guards, a crack Federalist company. 
A procession of men with spades and mattocks throzvn over their shoulders, and 
food in knapsacks on their backs, start off for zvork on the redoubts. 




Lord Howe (1725-99) 
In National Portrait Gallery, London 

('()I)yngIit by J-lmery Walker 




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Alexander Kabierske 
As a British Light Dragoon 




Drawing of the Blue Anchor Inn 
By Charles H. Stephens 




Men at Work on Delaware Block House in the Property Room 



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The horn of an express is heard. He comes up to the front of the field and 
shouts, "The British have landed at North Point! They are lieadcd for Balti- 
more!" 

Shouts of derision and defiance. Men seize arms. The militia companies 
pass off as though going to the war, the women waving their fareivells. 

In a little while another express rides in on a foaming steed. The people 
press around him. He shouts, "The British have been defeated at North Point, 
and their general, Lord Ross, is killed!" Cheers are heard on all sides. "Huzza 
for the brave Baltimoreans!" "Our city is safe!" etc. An old "seventy-sixer" 
xvaves his hands and is folloived by a crowd of boys as he goes off to announce the 
nezvs in other parts of the city. The militia companies again come upon the field 
bearing the American flag. The bands play the first chords of the "The Star 
Spangled Banner." The music is taken up by the Chorus: 

"Oh ! say can you see by the dawn's early light, 

What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming, 

Whose stripes and bright stars thro' the perilous fight. 

O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming ; 

And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, 
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there. 

Chorus — "Oh ! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave, 
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ! 

"Oh, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand 

Between their lov'd home and the war's desolation ; 
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n rescued land 

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. 
Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just, 
And this be our motto, 'In God is our trust.' 

Chorus — "And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave, 
While the land of the free is the home of the brave !" 



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EPISODE VIII 



HISTORICAL NOTE 

In 1824 Lafayette revisited the United States. He was accompanied by his son, 
George Washington Lafayette. He came to Philadelphia late in September and was 
the recipient of a round of attentions. The survivors of the Revolutionary era were 
gathered to welcome him. He was met at the end of the Trenton bridge by the military 
and escorted into the city under arches, amid transparencies, through hurrahing crowds. 
The First City Troop and the Washington Grays had the prominent places around 
Lafayette's barouche. Not in many years, if ever, had the city known such a cele- 
bration. 

CAST OF CHARACTERS 

General Lafayette. 

George Washington Lafayette. 

Governor Shulze. 

Judge Richard Peters, of Belmont. 

Mayor Watson. 

Joseph S. Lewis. 

William Rush. 

John M. Scott. 

Aquila a. Browne. 

James Wilmer. 

Benjamin Tilghman. 

John Swift. 

Other prominent citizens. 

A crowd of men, women and children. 

Washington Grays and other military companies. 



. Members of the Committee of Councils. 



CHORUS 

He comes again as in our direst need 

He came to succor a fast fading cause ; 
He comes, the witness of a glorious deed 

To meet a people's unrestrained applause, — 
To breathe the fragrance of the flower whose seed 
His patriot hands deep planted in our laws, 

Hail to the friend who heard our country's cry. 
Great Lafayette, our Washington's ally ! 



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The scene shozvs the reception to Lafayette in Philadelphia in 1824. The 
"Nation's Guest" ivith Judge Peters, occupies a barouche. His son, George 
Washington Lafayette, follows in another carriage. They are escorted by troops. 
On transparencies we seen "A Nation's Welcome to Freedom's Friend," "Wel- 
come to the Nation's Guest," "Yorktoivn, Monmouth and Brandyunne," etc. 
Lafayette boivs his acknozvledgments. 

In front of the stand Lafayette dismounts and proposes a toast: 

"The City of Philadelphia — where American Independence was first pro- 
claimed and where the holy alliance of public order with popular institutions is 
every day happily demonstrated." 

He reenters his carriage and all move off to the strains of a march. 



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EPILOGUE 



HISTORICAL NOTE 

The growth of the city was continuous, but in government the people came under 
29 separate jurisdictions. The old city lying between the Delaware and the Schuylkill 
and Vine and South Streets had a population in 1850 of 121,376. The county had 
408,762 inhabitants. Where the city ended and the suburbs began could not be 
determined by the eye. Houses extended in unbroken blocks north of Vine street 
and south of South street, but the people were politically separate. Included in the 
county were ten corporations, six boroughs and thirteen townships. The corporations 
were the old city and the districts of Southwark, Northern Liberties, Kensington, 
Spring Garden, Penn, Moyamensing, Richmond, West Philadelphia and Belmont; the 
six boroughs, Germantown, Frankford, Manayunk, Bridesburg, Whitehall and Ara- 
mingo; the thirteen townships, Passyunk, Blockley, Kingsessing, Roxborough, Ger- 
mantown, Bristol, Oxford, Moreland, Byberry, Northern Liberties, Penn, Lower 
Dublin and Delaware. The evils of divided authority with the rioting fire companies 
and their ruffianly adherents were at length too great to be borne any longer and 
in 1854 all the districts, boroughs and townships were consolidated with the city. 
The city became coterminous with the county and a new era had begun. 

The orchestra gives the theme of the psalm to he sung, and the Chorus sings: 

CHORUS 

God of our fathers, in whose palm 

Lie all the fates of all the years, 
Whose voice hath bid the sea be calm 

And sealed the founts of all men's tears ; 
Grant to the city of our love 

The greatness that doth spring from Thee. 
The civic pride that soars above 

The petty strifes of policy : 
Give heed to our ascending psalm 

And turn to trust our sordid fears, 
God of our fathers, in whose palm 

Lie all the fates of all the years. 



SEMI-CHORUS (Remembrance) 

For thou hast bid the sea be calm 

And sealed the founts of all men's tears. 



SEMI-CHORUS (Aspiration) 

And thou wilt hearken to our psalm 
And turn to trust our sordid fears. 




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as They Were Before the Consolidation in 1854 



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FULL CHORUS 

City of regal diaclems, 

l">om history claim thy just renown, 
And gather up, like scattered gems. 

The jewels to stud a flawless crown ; 
Take to thy breast these daughters fair 

Whose being is a part of thee, 
While down the aisles of lambent air 

Float swelling strains of melody. 
Thy onward march no envy stems 

Nor any voice thy song can drown, 
City of regal diadems 

Whose brows support a flawless crov.n. 

SEMI-CHORUS (Remembrance) 

For thou hast garnered scattered gems 
To glorify thy flawless crown. 

SEMI-CHORUS (Aspiration) 

And thou shalt wear new diadems 

While men shall sing thy just renown. 

A herald, mounted on a richly caparisoned horse, rides into the arena from 
the northzvest corner of the field. After a blast on his trumpet, he announces in 
a loud voice the names of the coming Districts: Spring Garden, the borough of 
Germantozvn, Germantozvn Toivnship, Penn Tozvnship, South Penn, Manayunk, 
Roxborough. He pauses after each name, and the symbolical figure of the dis- 
trict or borough appears. 

Similarly another Herald rides in from, the northeast corner of the Held. He 
gives a blast on his trumpet, and announces: The District of N\orthern Liberties, 
the Township of Northern Liberties, Kensington, Aramingo, White Hall, Lovuer 
Dublin, Delazvare, Morcland, Byberry, Richmond, Frankford, Bridesburg, Bristol, 
Oxford. The symbolical figures appear as in the former instance. 

A Herald rides in from the southivest corner of the field, and after a trumpet 
blast announces: West Philadelphia, Belmont, Blockley. Kingsessing. The figures 
appear as announced. 

Again a Herald rides in from the southeast corner of the field, gizing 
a trumpet blast announcing: Southzmrk, Moyamensing, Passyunk. The 
figures appear as announced. 

Nozv a matronly figure is seen. She represents Philadelphia. The several 
districts form around her. 

The figure "Philadelphia" ascends a platform at back, and the several dis- 
tricts are grouped or form a pyramid about her. The national and the city 
colors are broken out from fiag poles at the rear, the bands playing "America." 



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As this ceases, the Chorus, accompanied by tiic orchestra, sings: 

CHORUS 

God of our fathers in whose palm 

Lie all the fates of all the years, 
Give heed to our ascending psalm 

And turn to trust our sordid fears. 

SEMI-CHORUS (Remembrance) 

For Thou hast bid the sea be calm 

And sealed the founts of all men's tears. 

SEMI-CHORUS (Aspiration) 

And Thou wilt hearken to our psalm 
And turn to trust our sordid fears. 

CHORUS 

City of regal diadems, 

From history claim thy just renown, 
And gather up, like scattered gems. 

The jewels to stud a flawless crown. 

SEMI-CHORUS (Remembrance) 

Thy onward march no envy stems. 
Nor any voice thy song can drown, 

SEMI-CHORUS (Aspiration) 

City of regal diadems. 
Whose brows support a flawless crown. 

CHORUS 

Give heed to our ascending psalm. 

And turn to trust our sordid fears, 
God of our fathers in whose palm 

Lie all the fates of all the years. 

All the performers enter and are given their places upon the /leld for a grand 
tableau. One line after another is put into motion, and the performers in proces- 
sion pass before the grand stand, and off the field. The symbolical figures remain 
in position zvhile the "March Past" progresses and are the last to leave the scene. 




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HIST 

PHILADELPHIA IVlil 



SEPTEMBER 30 
OCTOBER 5 



Drawing for the Historical Pageant Poster 
By M. L. Blumenthal 




MAKERS OF THE PAGEANT 

I Mrs. Margaret McHenry (Photograph by Marccau) 
2 Joseph Jackson 

3 Mrs. C. M. Broomall ( Photograpli by Marceaii) 
4 Charles M. Lefferts 

5 John Lucas (Photograph by Evans) 



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m^t Constitution of tfje ®niteb States! 

Scenes in Philadelphia 125 Years Ago 

In Philadelphia 125 years ago the Constitution of the United 
States, long the pride of Americans and the model for the friends of 
freedom throughout the world, was framed and sent out to the thir- 
teen states. The total impotency of the government organized 
under the Articles of Confederation demanded the serious attention 
of the people, if the fruits of the war were to be made valuable. No 
central government worthy of that name had yet been established. 
There was as yet only a number of states with more or less common 
interests. These interests, however, were momentarily in danger of 
growing unlike and separate. Soon, if something were not done, 
quarrels would arise among the states and, there being no power 
over all to guide and compel, they would become the prey of Euro- 
pean conquerors. "What may be the final event," Robert Morris 
wrote, "time only can discover; but the probability is that first 
divided, then governed, our children may lament in chains the folly 
of their fathers." What he wished, as he wrote to his friend, Alex- 
ander Hamilton, was "a firm, wise, manly system of federal govern- 
ment." This was the hope of the wisest men in Pennsylvania, New 
England and Virginia. There was need of what the Germans call 
a Bundesstaat instead of a Staatenbund, a federation instead of a 
confederation, a strong central government instead of a league of 
state governments, without a common purpose, or the authority to 
interpret and express the common resolves. Congress, after it had 
left the city for Princeton in the summer of 1783, frightened by a 
few Continental officers who had come to collect their back pay, 
refused to return. It was in New^ York when the call was sent out 
for a convention of delegates from the various states to assemble in 
Philadelphia in May, 1787, for the purpose of devising some system 
of federal control. 

Few had a suspicion what this system would be, although a 
number of men of experience in management during the war were 
determined that it should have more fibre than would have been 



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acceptable to the very democratic masses whom they represented in 
the notable conference. On December 30, 1786, the Assembly of 
Pennsylvania delegated seven of its citizens as its representatives in 
the convention, — James Wilson, Robert Morris, Gouverneur Morris, 
Thomas Mifflin, George Clymer, Jared IngersoU and Thomas Fitz- 
simmons. Afterward the name of Benjamin Franklin was added to 
the number. The meeting time w^as set for May 14th, but it was 
the 25th day of the month before a quorum (representation from 
seven states) was at hand in the State House "ready to transact the 
most important business which it has ever fallen to the lot of any 
body of public men in America to perform." 

General Washington, who was one of the delegates from Vir- 
ginia, had arrived in the city on the 13th. He was met at some 
distance down the Southern Road by the City Troop, and escorted to 
the home of Robert Morris, whose guest he was imtil the conven- 
tion adjourned. The event brought to the city such men as Alex- 
ander Hamilton, from New York; Rufus King and Elbridge Gerry, 
from Massachusetts; Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth, from 
Connecticut; George Read and John Dickinson, from Delaware; 
James Madison, George Wythe and Edmund Randolph, from Vir- 
ginia, and John Rutledge, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, his kins- 
man, Charles Pinckney and Pierce Butler, from South Carolina. 

It had been generally agreed beforehand that Washington 
should preside. Nominated by Robert Morris, in behalf of Pennsyl- 
vania, he was unanimously elected. Morris walked upon one side 
and John Rutledge, of South Carolina, on the other, to conduct him 
to the chair. Major William Jackson was elected secretary. Sur- 
prisingly little zeal was manifested for the work in hand except on 
the part of a few men. Recent researches show that there were in 
all 73 appointments to the convention, but a considerable number did 
not exert themselves to attend. The delegates did not even put 
themselves to the trouble to acknowledge the honor which the states 
had done them by making them m.embers of the distinguished body. 
Only 55 ever put in an appearance. New Hampshire's delegates 
did not arrive until late in July and Rhode Island had none present 
at any time. Of the fifty-five who attended the sessions and par- 
ticipated in the prolonged discussions, two from New York with- 
drew from the body before its work was done, three refused to sign 



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the instrument and eleven al)sented themselves from the meeting when 
they should have been present to append their names. Only thirty- 
nine gave it their signatures, Pennsylvania contributing eight and 
Delaware five, their entire delegations. These two states were alone 
in giving the scheme of government which was proposed their 
unanimous support, and were the strength of the Federal movement. 
Alexander Hamilton stood by himself in New York. Massachusetts 
contributed only two signatures and Virginia but three, Washing- 
ton, John Blair, and that man who next to Hamilton and perhaps 
Wilson, had been the most useful member of the convention, James 
Madison. 

Many delegates had plans which they presented to the conven- 
tion and defended with ability. The writings of a number of men 
outside the body, including John Adams's masterly work on Consti- 
tutions were carefully pondered. The claims that have been made 
for Pelatiah Webster, at that time a Philadelphia merchant, as the 
author of the main features of the Constitution require considera- 
tion. He had written a pamphlet entitled, "A Dissertation on the 
Political Union and the Constitution of the Thirteen United States 
of America." It was published February i6th, 1783. Like the 
numerous other pamphlets of the same author, it appeared anony- 
mously, but was included in his collected writings in 179 1. It is a 
most thoughtful essay, and a masterpiece of lucidity. As Mr. Web- 
ster, who was a man of wealth, was accustomed to distribute his 
pamphlets to those whom he believed w^ould be interested in them, it 
seems fair to suppose that nearly if not all the members of Congress 
received copies. As many of the suggestions, demonstrated with 
care and in an entertaining manner, were included in the Constitu- 
tion by its framers, the claim that Mr. Webster is entitled to some 
share of the honor attending the success of the convention is not 
unreasonable. 

The frame of government proposed by the delegates was adopted 
on September 17th, and the members adjourned by no means certain 
that their labors would meet wath the acceptance of the nine states, 
which must approve before it could be carried into effect. Wash- 
ington had been a powerful force to bring about harmony of feeling 
in the convention, and his advice was destined to exert an important 



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influence in the states to which the discussions were at once trans- 
ferred. He was the first character in America. His reputation was 
unsulHed by that criticism which would be launched against him 
when party bitternesses arose. On September i8th he set out in his 
chariot for Mount Vernon, parting from his friends, Robert and 
Gouverneur Morris, at Gray's Ferry, and reached home four days 
later, on Saturday evening, September 22d, "about sunset, after an 
absence of four months and fourteen days." 

The departure of the delegates from Philadelphia was the 
signal for such political excitement as the city had not lately, if ever, 
known. The sessions of the convention had been secret, and no one 
outside of the hall had an inkling of what the result would be. 
Until the finished instrument was published its character was quite 
unknown. That it would be unsatisfactory to many was foreseen; 
that its approval by a sufficient number of states to secure its adop- 
tion could be secured was doubtful. Pennsylvania and Delaware 
having had so prominent a part in the work of the body were 
expected to act quickly and Delaware did so, with a unanimity for 
which she may long feel proud, on December 7th, 1787 — in less than 
three months after the convention had adjourned. Pennsylvania 
followed on December 12th, but not without a violent party struggle. 
The state had long been the front and center of the French democ- 
racy, and their leaders at once detected in the proposed Constitution 
of the Union the gravest danger to popular liberty. They foresaw 
that the indorsement of any such principles of government as Hamil- 
ton and the Federalists had made to prevail in the Constitution 
would be fatal to those ideas which they had nursed like fanatics 
for more than ten years, and they w^ere determined to accomplish 
its defeat. If checks and balances, separate executive, judicial and 
legislative departments and a bicameral legislature with a house of 
lords, under the disguise of a senate, were to be made the pattern 
for America, and Montesquieu was to be made to triumph over Rous- 
seau, ruin was at hand for the French democrats. 

But if this party had wished to defeat a proper system of 
Federal government it should have moved earlier and prevented the 
sending to the convention of such men as James Wilson, Robert 
Morris, Gouverneur Morris and George Clymer. Aided by George 
Washington, Hamilton, Madison and John Dickinson, they were to 



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all intents and purposes the authors of the instrument and the oppo- 
sition would need to be very active to circumvent men of so much 
power and intelligence. 

The Federalists were overwhelmingly triumphant in the city in 
the election of members to the convention called to ratify the Con- 
stitution. Their five candidates w^re James Wilson, Thomas Mc- 
Kean, Benjamin Rush, George Latimer and Hilary Baker. The 
average majority for the Constitution was about ten to one. 

The Pennsylvania convention was a body of sixty-nine dele- 
gates and it organized with Frederick A. Muhlenberg, one of the 
distinguished sons of the Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, of the 
Lutheran church at the Trappe, as its presiding officer. The battle 
was sharp but brief. The Anti-Federalists were greatly outvoted. 
On December 12th the question of ratification came before the dele- 
gates, and forty-six were favorable and tw^enty-three unfavorable to 
a "more perfect union" under the Constitution. 

The counties of Philadelphia, Bucks, Montgomery, Northamp- 
ton, Chester, York and Lancaster (excepting one vote) gave their 
solid support to the city in the affirmative. Berks, Dauphin, Cum- 
berland, Bedford, Fayette and Westmoreland, full of the wild spirit 
of the frontier to which the French theories had now spread, cast 
nineteen of the twenty-three negative votes. The next day, on 
December 13th, the members of the convention marched from the 
State House to the old court house, at Second and Market streets, 
where the act was solemnly proclaimed to the people. Guns were 
fired and bells were rung. There w^as a dinner at one of the taverns 
and much mutual congratulation. 

New Jersey's ratification came only one day later, on December 
13th. Georgia followed on January 2d, 1788, Connecticut on Janu- 
ary 9th, Massachusetts on February 6th, Maryland on April 26th, 
South Carolina on May 23d, and then on June 21st, 1788, New 
Hampshire approved, the honor hers of being the ninth state and of 
making the Constitution effective. Virginia did not accede until 
June 25th, after a stubborn battle; New^ York not until July 26th. 
North Carolina gave her assent on November 21, 1789, and Rhode 
Island, the thirteenth state, on May 29, 1790. 

A number of leading Philadelphians had determined that when 
the ninth state had ratified the Constitution they would organize a 



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pageant. The news of the action of New Hampshire, in 1788, led 
to immediate preparation and the celebration was set for July 4th. 
The chairman of the committee of arrangements was Francis Hop- 
kinson, and a very remarkable demonstration ensued. 

The machinery must now be put in motion for the establishment 
of the government, and as Congress had been in session in New 
York since 1785, that city became the scene of the inaugural cere- 
monies. The Anti-Federalists were still active in Pennsylvania, and 
resolved upon measures looking to the amendment of the Constitu- 
tion in the interest of larger rights for the states and more direct 
popular participation in the government. They also put forth stren- 
uous efforts to send men of their party to Congress and to the elec- 
toral college to choose a president and a vice-president of the United 
States. In neither movement did they succeed. Thomas Fitzsim- 
mons and George Clymer were elected to Congress from the city 
and county. The successful candidates outside Philadelphia were 
Federalists also. The Federal electoral ticket, headed by James 
Wilson, swept the state. Pennsylvania's ten votes were given for 
George Washington for president, while eight were bestowed upon 
John Adams and two upon John Hancock for vice president. 

The date of the meeting of the first Congress was set for the 
first Monday in March (March 4), 1789, but the members came into 
New York slowly. Washington started north on April i6th. As 
he neared Philadelphia, he was met by a large concourse of troopers 
and mounted citizens. His reception at Gray's Ferry was triumphal 
and he pursued his way amid unexampled enthusiasm to New York, 
where he was inducted into office. There the capital remained until 
the next year. In December, 1790, the President and Congress 
came to Philadelphia, and for ten years this city was again the 
center of political interest in the Union. Here hostile forces met, 
here the experiment of government under the new Constitution was 
tried, here the Federal strength was felt and made known. After a 
place had been hewn out of the forests on the Potomac for the public 
buildings of the young nation, the agents and symbols of our central 
administration were transferred to the District of Columbia. Phila- 
delphia, which had been the capital of the United States in the eigh- 
teenth century with the opening of the nineteenth century, surren- 
dered this position to the new city of Washington. 




Drawing for Souvenir Post Card 
By Ethel Franklin Betts Bains 




The House in which Washington resided while he was President, on High, now Market, 
Street. Robert Morris's home stands at the right at the corner of Sixth Street 




An old Philadelphia Pageant. Procession of Victuallers in 1821 



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^{jilabelptia in ti)e OTar o{ 1812 

The second war with England, toward which the country had 
been gravitating for many years, was brought very closely home to 
Philadelphians by reason of their important shipping interests. 
Large sums of money were invested in, and a considerable portion 
of the population was directly or indirectly sustained by oversea 
commerce. It was to be a war on the ocean, directed against inter- 
national trade, and much of the w^eight of the conflict fell upon the 
most populous, the wealthiest, and in other ways the leading city in 
America. The various embargoes of England and France during 
the period of the Napoleonic wars, the general invasion of the rights 
of neutral powers, and the impressment of their seamen by the bel- 
ligerents, led to a feeling of great resentment in the United States. 
For years the English and French parties in this country had been 
conducting a savage warfare upon each other, and while the out- 
rages of either power upon American shipping were now^ sufficiently 
great to warrant a declaration of hostilities against it, those of Eng- 
land seemed the greater and appealed more strongly for redress at 
the hands of the administration and the people. On June 28, 1807, 
the new^s reached Philadelphia of the British "Leopard" firing its 
guns on the American frigate ''Chesapeake" five days before, outside 
the Virginia Capes. Several men were killed and w-ounded, and 
some sailors, said to be deserters from the British service, were car- 
ried oflf. The excitement was intense, and war seemed immediately 
at hand. A meeting in the State House yard w^as called for July 
1st. Matthew Lawler presided while Joseph Hopkinson served as 
secretary. Dr. Leib offered the resolutions. The old militia com- 
panies were hastily mobilized, and new ones were formed. At the 
Cock and Lion, the Harp and Eagle, the Sorrel Horse, and other 
taverns, men gathered together to offer their services for the defence 
of the city and the state. Companies w^ere formed into brigades 
under Brigadier-Generals Michael Bright and Michael Leib. John 
Barker, who supplanted John Shee as Major-General, had command 
over all, and issued a ringing address: 

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"Fly to your arms, my young soldiers! Justice is your path. 
Let prudence be your guide, mercy your watchword, and the Omni- 
potent Generalissimo that led your fathers through a long and cruel 
war will take charge of you and lead you to conquest and honor." 

As provoking as were the restrictions upon trade, chargeable to 
England and France, the shipping interests were still more aggrieved 
when this government began to retaliate with its embargoes and 
non-intercourse acts. The ship owners were nearly all Federalists 
and shared the resentment against Jefferson and the Republican 
party for their course in regard to Great Britain, which found more 
violent expression in New England, and there at length led to the 
Hartford Convention. The sailors, too, were in great discontent 
because of a lack of employment, and assembled idly and at times 
riotously upon the wharves. 

There had been a large Irish immigration during the past few 
years, as was evidenced by the number and prominence of Irish 
names in the city, and the anti-English feeling was increased by 
elements introduced into the population from this source. At one 
meeting, a body of these foreign advocates of war, carpeted the 
platform with a British flag and their speakers had the joy of tram- 
pling it under their feet as they uttered their denunciations of Eng- 
land. Only another spark was needed to set the country on fire, 
and that was provided by the affair between the American frigate 
"President" and the British sloop-of-war "Little Belt", off Cape 
Henry in May, 1811. In the autumn a war party, with Henry Clay 
at its head, took charge of affairs at Washington, and led the nation 
into hostilities with Great Britain. The militia continued to drill 
and engage in sham fights, but the declaration of war in June, 181 2, 
really found the city, as well as the nation at large, ill prepared for 
the contest. Colonel Winfield Scott came to Philadelphia to raise a 
regiment for the regular service, pitching his camp west of the 
Schuylkill River, near the Upper Ferry, soon departing with the 
men for Canada. David Moffat and other bold merchants and sea 
captains, fitted out privateers and the sailors who had been idle 
under the embargoes entered a service which called them to rich 
returns. Moffat "scoured the coast of Great Britain to her great 
annoyance and loss by his frequent captures of her merchant ships." 



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His best vessel was the "Rattlesnake". Trizes soon began to come 
into port. 

When the ice broke up in the Delaware River in the spring of 
1 813, the Philadelphians found that they were entirely shut off from 
the sea. A P>ritish squadron, under Sir John Beresford, had placed 
itself at the Capes and blockaded the bay. This made the war seem 
verv real and near to the people of the city, and they were at once 
brought to a realization of their undefended position. At Fort Mif- 
flin, which had been put into some kind of order at the outbreak of 
the war, there were but thirteen or fourteen invalids; all the rest of 
the garrison had left with Winfield Scott the year before. What 
the British intended to do, no one quite knew, and the fear that they 
might sail up the river and bombard the city was never out of the 
people's minds. What was very well known was that they were 
asking for water, bullocks, and various kinds of provisions from the 
inhabitants of Lewes, and threatening to fire upon the town if their 
demands were not complied with promptly. Small craft w^re being 
captured, scuttled and burned, and in March, 18 13, the "Montes- 
quieu" of Stephen Girard, with a fine cargo from China, was seized. 
This vessel had left Philadelphia a few days before Christmas, 
1 8 10, for Valparaiso, and had gone on to Canton, where she arrived 
on February 19, 181 2. In the following November she had set sail 
from that place on her return to Philadelphia, with a cargo valued 
at $164,744. The ship itself was worth from $15,000 to $20,000. 
Girard's captain had no inkling of the blockade, or indeed of the 
war. The old mariner knew w^hat added value the goods would 
have at this time, if he could secure them, and he sent to Sir John 
Beresford an offer of $180,000 if the captors w^ould release his prop- 
erty. This plan was agreed to and the ransom money w^as paid in 
coin. As usual, Girard's judgment w^as right. He succeeded in 
selling the cargo of the "Montesquieu" for $488,655. 

On April 6th the British opened their guns upon the town of 
Lewes, to which militiamen had been hurried from all directions, and 
kept up the bombardment for twenty-two hours. The injury, how- 
ever, w-as very trifling, and the performance resulted chiefly in fright. 
Some companies of volunteers were sent south w^iile this excitement 
lasted, but they saw no active military service. Brigadier-General 
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a camp, which bore his name, near the village of Staunton on the 
Baltimore road. New Castle on the Delaware was only six miles 
away and the Head of Elk, which led to the waters of the Chesa- 
peake, but seventeen miles. Three or four hundred Philadelphia vol- 
unteers, aided by some troops from Delaware, comprised the entire 
force, which continued to reconnoiter the ground for several weeks. 
The camp was moved two or three times, and on July 26, 1813, was 
broken up, the companies entering Philadelphia again on the after- 
noon of the succeeding day. They were given a meal at "Wood- 
lands" and escorted with honor into the city, to be dismissed in front 
of the State House. The excitement now somewhat abated. 

It was a difficult matter to make any proper arrangements for 
defence because of the violence of party feeling. The Federalists, 
who were in control in Select Council, declared that the war was 
unnecessary and one not to be supported on that account. Common 
Council, which was Republican, was powerless without the coopera- 
tion of the other body. Stung into action by the indignities which 
the national name was compelled to suffer on land and sea at the 
hands of the enemy, and by a crystallization of public sentiment, 
practical measures were finally resolved upon. A squadron of armed 
galleys was set afloat upon the river. While this was not a formid- 
able fleet, at no time numbering more than nineteen gunboats, six 
barges and two block sloops, it could have offered some resistance, 
perhaps, to the progress of a hostile invasion, such as that which was 
aimed at Washington City in 1814. That outrage at once warmed 
the people's blood. On August 25th news came to Philadelphia of 
the battle of Bladensburg, and the burning of the Capitol. The city 
was "in the greatest agitation." The Federalists were aroused at 
last. Was Philadelphia safe against the small number of British 
soldiers who had visited so much humiliation upon the nation at 
Washington? The army might be in Baltimore in a few days; in 
a few days more in Philadelphia, the old capital and the principal 
city of the republic. 

A town meeting called for the State House yard for the next 
day brought out citizens of all ages, classes and parties. Thomas 
McKean, now eighty years old, presided. "This is not a time for 
speaking," he said, "but a time for action." Joseph Reed, the son 
of the Joseph Reed of Revolutionary times, was the secretary. A 



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committee of defence was appointed, headed by Charles Biddle. The 
names upon it included Jared Ingersoll, John Sergeant, Thomas 
Leiper, George Lattimer, Thomas Cadwalader, General John Steele, 
General John Barker, Mayor John Geyer, Manuel Eyre, Michael 
Leib, Condy Raguet, Jonathan Williams, John Barclay and John 
Naglee. They organized at once, and appointed four persons for 
each of the fourteen wards of the city, twenty-one for the districts 
of the Northern Liberties and Penn Township, and twenty-six for 
South wark, Moyamensing and Passyunk. It was the duty of these 
committeemen to urge the able-bodied men of their respective neigh- 
borhoods to enroll themselves in military companies for the city's 
defence. Signals of alarm were agreed upon. At six guns Ored in 
succession at Fort Mifflin, at the Navy Yard, or at the Arsenal, 
drums would beat to arms and all the soldiers of every kind would 
rendezvous in Broad Street. The people were in fright, and many 
left for the interior with their money and goods. Stephen Girard 
engaged ten Conestoga wagons to take away a quantity of silver, 
silks and nankeens, to Reading. He entrusted this caravan to the 
care of a young apprentice, William Wagner, remembered as the 
founder of the Wagner Free Institute of Science. 

Plans were laid to impede the progress of the enemy, if news 
were received of his march toward the city. All horses, cattle and 
vehicles were to be driven into the interior, out of reach, so that 
no facilities of transportation should be left to the invaders. Pro- 
visions of all kinds were to be removed or destroyed. The lower 
box and the spear in every pump were to be taken out so that the 
wells could not be drawn upon for water. Passes in the roads were 
to be stopped by felling trees and throwing them across the way. 
An "indispensable wheel" was to be taken from every mill on the 
probable route of march. While these measures promised a rather 
puerile resistance, they seemed to be the best which the ingenuity of 
the people, with their limited means, could devise. 

A number of forts and other works of defence were hastily 
thrown up on the western side of the city — at Gray's Ferry; at a 
place near "Woodlands," named "Fort Hamilton," in honor of the 
Hamiltons who interested themselves in the undertaking; in a situ- 
ation commanding the Lancaster pike; and on the south side of the 
hill called Fairmount. An effort was made to command all of the 



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southern roads. These fortifications were planned by Colonel I. 
Fonciu, a French officer resident in the city, and other competent 
engineers, and the work was done by the citizens in turn. The 
members of various trades and other organizations contributed their 
services gratuitously for one day. There were parties composed of 
400 victualers, 300 hatters and brickmakers, the crew of the priva- 
teer "Washington," 300 cordwainers, 500 "friendly aliens," 510 Free 
Masons, 2200 "sons of Erin, citizens of the United States," 650 col- 
ored men, 540 men from the German societies. Silversmiths, artists, 
doctors, lawyers, took up the pick and spade. In all, 15,000 persons 
worked upon the forts for one day each. Many who could not assist 
with their own hands, gave money to forward the end in view. Every 
morning between five and six o'clock, from September 3d to October 
1st, a crowd of these volunteers with their food in knapsacks and 
handkerchiefs, left the city and trudged out to the scene of their 
labors. As a rule, each party had its fife and drum. A Scotchman 
named James McAlpin, dressed as a Highlander, played on the bag- 
pipes, as he led some thirty other Scots, each with a spade, out 
Market street to the redoubts. Grog was generously dealt out, and 
for many the service was a grand frolic. 

Others gave a care to the better defence of the Delaware. The 
most important undertaking in this direction was the fortification of 
the Pea Patch, a shoal on which the reeds nodded in the tide some 
distance below New Castle. Great activity was manifested at the 
Arsenal on the Gray's Ferry road, and the city was scoured for 
cannon, muskets, powder and balls, uniforms and other military 
material. 

General Bloomfield, who was still the military commander in 
Philadelphia and its neighborhood, took charge of the volunteers. 
Large bodies of them were drilled in the State House yard and in 
the Southeast Square. Several hundred were encamped beyond the 
Schuylkill near the line of the Lancaster pike. All the old com- 
panies and several new ones were formed into one body, known as 
the "Advance Light Brigade." Now, as before, the value of Du- 
Pont's powder works near Wilmington as booty for the enemy was 
well understood. Both the Delaware and the Chesapeake approaches 
to the city were to be guarded. With all these ends in mind. General 
Bloomfield determined to establish a camp at Kennett Square, in 



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southern Chester County. This place was only about thirteen miles 
from Wilmington and within easy reach of the Elk River. The 
First City Troop proceeded to Mount Bull, a height overlooking the 
Chesapeake, and formed a chain of videttes extending to the camp 
and on up to Philadelphia. They thus performed the most useful 
sentry and scouting service. 

The camp at Kennett Square was named Camp Bloomfield. 
Here was assembled the Franklin Flying Artillery, Richard Bache, 
captain; the Independent Artillerists, the Junior Artillerists, the 
Northern Liberty Artillerists, the Washington Guards, an organiza- 
tion of Federalists, handsomely uniformed and well drilled; the Inde- 
pendent Blues, Peter A. Browne, captain; the Union Guards and 
other organizations, with names long ago forgotten. Only one do 
we know to-day, and this was the third company of the "First Regi- 
ment of Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry," as it was called for this 
service, the State Fencibles, and its captain, Clement C. Biddle 
became the colonel of the regiment. When he was advanced to this 
post, the company passed under the immediate command of Hart- 
man Kuhn, numbering such young men in its ranks as Henry C. 
Carey, James Page, Isaac W. Norris, Charles V. Hagner, Richard 
Willing, Joseph R. Ingersoll, Samuel P. Wetherill, Thomas Dunlap, 
Charles Grice, Henry J. Biddle, James Barclay, William L. Sonntag, 
Jr., and Joseph B. McKean. The company had been formed on 
May 26, 1 81 3, and it is still in existence after a continuous history 
of nearly one hundred years. The State Fencibles were the first 
to leave the city for the new camp. General Thomas Cadwalader 
commanded the brigade, while John Hare Powel was brigade-major, 
and Richard McCall and John G. Biddle aides-de-camp. The volun- 
teers were reinforced by some companies of regulars, and they were 
in this situation under these officers when the news came of the 
landing on September 12th, at North Point, only twelve miles away 
from Baltimore, of the transports, laden with the troops which had 
so lately devastated Washington. Their object now was the destruc- 
tion of the city on the Chesapeake. 

The word was soon passed to Philadelphia where men wrought 
themselves into the greatest excitement. It reached its height 
around the post office which at this time was situated in a building 
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Judd's Hotel. Crowds of men and women, the old and the young, 
met here to glean the latest news, and to discuss the military outlook. 
On September 12th the British General Ross had been killed, but the 
American militiamen were routed by the seasoned regulars of the 
enemy who pushed on toward Baltimore. They found their way 
obstructed and it was evening of the next day before they reached 
the guarded height surrounding the city. The ships bombarded 
Fort McHenry, and the other works in the river without avail for 
twenty-five hours. The land forces attempted some scaling opera- 
tions, but at length firing ceased and on the morning of the 14th it 
was discovered that the British had returned to their boats. One 
who was present on the 15th, when Philadelphia received the grate- 
ful tidings, says: 

"Upon reaching the corner of Fourth and Chestnut streets, 
which was accomplished with considerable difficulty, as the streets 
were packed with men, women and children, we heard the horn of 
the express rider. Down Chestnut he came at a full gallop, the 
crowd opening right and left. He pulled up at the corner and after 
a pause of a few moments, during which an awful silence reigned, 
and nothing was heard but the quick and heavy breathing of the 
horse and rider, he cried out in as loud a tone of voice as he could 
command. 'The d — d British have been defeated at North Point 
and their general. Lord Ross, is killed;' and then such a fierce cry of 
triumph, such cheers I have never heard equalled since that memor- 
able night. The streets were packed in every direction, * * * 
The cry of 'Huzza for the brave Baltimoreans ! Our city is safe!' 
was taken up by the immense throng and echoed far and wide." 

Another with memories of this time wrote of the shouting and 
hurrahing, the clapping of hands and the throwing up of hats and 
caps when the news came in: "All the way from Third and Market 
down to Dock, around to the Merchant's Cofifee House, Second and 
Walnut streets, and along Chestnut up to the State House there 
was one constant blaze of excitement. One old fellow, a jolly old 
landlord of a noted hotel down town, was so full of joy that he 
pulled off his coat and hat at Third and Chestnut streets and hur- 
rahed until he came to South street. His excitement raised a 
crowd which he addressed lustily. Others took the fever and it 



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spread rapidly in all the southern districts; so in the north it was 
spread in the same way by other old 'seventy-sixers.' " 

The excitement grew less, but despite their repulse at Balti- 
more there was still no assurance that the British might not yet 
appear in the Delaware. The Committee of Defence urged the 
Secretary of War to send them a commander of the first rank, 
either General Winfield Scott or General Edmund Pendleton 
Gaines. Scott, since he had left the city for the northern frontier, 
had made a great name for himself. At the battle of Lundy's Lane, 
late in July, he had had two horses shot from under him. He was 
wounded in the side and later in the day was shot through the 
shoulder. After lying for a month in New York State, he was able 
to come to Philadelphia to receive treatment from Dr. Physick. 
He arrived by w^ay of Princeton in September, and was escorted 
into town with much ceremony, later to be dined at Renshaw's 
new Mansion House Hotel at Eleventh and Market streets. He 
was already so far advanced toward recovery that he was urged 
to take command in this district. But the plan must be abandoned, 
and General Gaines early in October established his headquarters 
in the city. 

The Philadelphia troops at Kennett Square moved their 
ground on September 17, and drew nearer to Wilmington. Two 
camps, called Camp Brandywine and Camp Du Pont, were suc- 
cessively established in the neighborhood. The men remained in 
the field through the cold rains of November, but reached home 
again early in the afternoon of Friday, December 2d. The cavalry 
and infantry companies which had stayed in town met the return- 
ing soldiers west of the Schuylkill, and they together entered the 
city by way of the Market street bridge. At Eleventh and Market 
streets General Gaines reviewed the men from his headquarters, 
and they passed to the State House, where they were mustererd 
out of duty, the heroes of a bloodless campaign. 

During the progress of the war many of its revered figures 
came to Philadelphia, and they were shown those attentions for 
which the city had long been famous. As the principal commer- 
cial and financial centre of the republic, its literary and publishing 
centre, the seat of the best hotels, some of the finest American 
homes and the most interesting society — still controlled as it was 



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by the memories of the brilliant days when it had been the capital 
of the United States — it held its predominant place in the view of 
visitors. Foreigners who had not seen the city had not seen the 
country at all. Americans who did not visit it from time to time 
could be accounted little traveled men and women. It was on the 
high road between North and South ; it was the principal outfitting 
station and entrepot for the West. 

The city which had so many interests allying it with the sea 
sent a number of young men into the naval service, and their 
achievements awakened a deep feeling of pride. There were at 
hand swords, pieces of plate, silverware, dinners and votes of thanks 
for its gallant sons. Other heroes of the war who visited the city 
were as hospitably welcomed. 

The spirit of celebration reached its height on the receipt of 
the news of General Jackson's signal victory at New Orleans. The 
battle was fought on January 8th, but word of it was not received 
in Philadelphia until the 5th of February. Then the ships in the 
harbor fired salutes and flung their colors to the breeze. The streets 
were filled with huzzaing people. A week later news came of the 
signing of the treaty of peace. Mayor Wharton suggested a gen- 
eral illumination of the city on the evening of February 15th. The 
Schuylkill bridges were lighted; Paul Beck's shot tower, on the 
Schuylkill river near the foot of Arch street, rose up into the night 
"like a pillar of fire, the top being crowned with one hundred and 
sixty lamps." Illuminated arches were thrown over Eighth street 
at Callowhill, Market and Locust streets. Peale's Museum at the 
State House, the Chestnut Street Theatre, the Masonic Hall, the 
office of Poulson's Advertiser, the house at the northeast corner of 
Ninth and Market streets of Jacob Gerard Koch, the merchant who 
in 181 2 had ofTered to build a ship of war for the government at 
his own expense, and many other private residences, were bril- 
liantly lighted and decorated. Jackson's name was in every mouth. 
A ball was given in his honor in May at the Vauxhall Garden, a 
new place of amusement at the northeast corner of Broad and 
Walnut streets. He was toasted at the dinners on the Fourth of 
July, and prominently mentioned for the Presidency. 

The city played a more important, if less picturesque, part in 
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ernment whose credit at this time was sorely impaired. Stephen 
Girard, the old French merchant and mariner, who had become 
one of the wealthiest men in the Union, purchased a lot of bonds 
from the Secretary of the Treasury when the need was great, as 
did John Jacob Astor and Jacob Barker, of New York, the latter a 
wvirm patriot whose family has now for long been a part and parcel 
of the population of Philadelphia. 

Another who gave the country financial aid in this grave time 
was David Parish, of Philadelphia, for several years a notable figure 
in American finance. He had come here from Antwerp in 1805 
as the agent of Hope and Company to direct one of the gigantic 
financial operations which marked the Napoleonic wars. He lived 
at one time in the handsome McCall mansion on Second street, and 
later at the corner of Seventh and Walnut streets, facing Wash- 
ington Square. Famous men enjoyed the hospitality of this sump- 
tuous home. He was able and willing to lend his own credit and 
that of some leading financiers with whom he had connections in 
Europe, and the city bore an honorable part in the business of 
making it possible for a country poorly prepared for war to drive 
the invaders back into their ships. For a second time a triumph 
over Great Britain had been won. The government which had been 
proclaimed in 1776, which had been established in 1787 and the few 
years following that eventful date, was now entrenched in the 
hearts of its own people and confirmed in its place in the great inter- 
national family of states. 



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*' Belmont*'— The Pageant Field in History 8l 



"Pelmont* — ^Ije pageant Jfielb in i|igtorp 

"Belmont," once the country seat of Richard Peters, who was 
long a Judge in the United States District Court, and the host 
of many of the celebrities from Europe who visited Philadelphia, 
then the capital city of the nation, as well as the foremost men in 
our own history, stands on the highest ground in West Fairmount 
Park. The elevation above tidewater at this point is 200 feet. 

William Peters, the father of Judge Peters, and brother of the 
Rev. Dr. Richard Peters, the rector of Christ Church, is believed to 
have come to this country from England about the year 1740. The 
exact year does not appear to be accurately known. The tract long 
distinguished as "Belmont," however, was purchased by William 
Peters from Ruth Jones, widow of Daniel Jones, in July, 1742. The 
new owner of the property seems to have erected a small stone house 
soon after that year, for his son, Judge Richard Peters, was born 
there in June, 1744. The estate to which the new owner gave the 
name of "Belmont," evidently with remembrance of the seat of Bas- 
sanie's Portia, in "The Merchant of Venice," contained 220 acres, 
and included the island in the Schuylkill River, still known as Peters' 
Island. 

The situation was one of the finest in the neighborhood of 
Philadelphia. At that date it was within the jurisdiction of Blockley 
Township, and it extended from the borders of the "Lansdowne" 
estate on the south to what in recent years has been known as 
*'Chamounix," the Johnson property, both now parts of Fairmount 
Park. The Peters estate was increased by further purchases until in 
the year 1801 it contained 282 acres, and extended back to George's 
Hill. Its main road was connected with Ford Road, later called 
Monument Road. 

Just before the Revolution, William Peters retired to England, 
where he remained until his death. During those years of anxiety 
and struggle, his son, Richard, successfully managed the great prop- 
erty, and in 1786, we find William Peters and his wife conveying the 
title of the estate to Richard, "in recompense for the long and dutiful 



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and faithful service rendered by their said son in the conduct and 
management of the estate and affairs of him, the said Richard Peters, 
for the period of nineteen years past; with the intent also that the 
said family-seat shall remain in the family and name of him, the said 
William Peters, and also in consideration of 724 pounds, 13s. gd." 

To the original small stone house, a rather magnificent mansion 
was later added, but whether by William Peters or by his son has 
not been satisfactorily determined. Even this mansion has been 
largely effaced, though many traces of its old glory remain. 

Probably no seat in America during the closing years of the 
eighteenth century entertained so many of the great men of the time. 
The family was one of wealth, and it was not wealth acquired in this 
country. William Peters, the original owner, was for a time secre- 
tary of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania; certainly he was 
acting in that capacity in the year 1755. The following year we 
find him military secretary to Lieutenant-Governor Robert Hunter 
Morris. In 1757, he accompanied Governor Denny to negotiate the 
Indian Treaty at Easton. He was variously connected with the Pro- 
vincial Government until the dawn of the Revolution, to which, while 
he took no active part, he was known to have been opposed. 

His son, Richard, who had been educated in the college of 
Philadelphia, later the University of Pennsylvania, whence he grad- 
uated in 1 76 1, was wholly American. At the first alarm he was 
with the patriots. He became secretary of the Board of War, which 
position he held throughout the Revolution, or until February, 1781, 
when under the Articles of Confederation, he was elected Secretary 
of War of the United States, which office he held until October of 
the same year, when he was succeeded by General Lincoln. 

Richard Peters was one of the small group of scholars to be 
found in this country in his time. He was a good Latin and Greek 
man and was acquainted with both French and German. After the 
war, he made a visit to England and successfully represented the 
condition of the American congregations of the Church of England. 
It was under an arrangement which he made while there that Wil- 
liam White was ordained a bishop at Lambeth in 1787. 

On his return to his native country Richard Peters was elected 
to the Assembly, and served as speaker of that body for two terms. 
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President Washington ai)pointed him one of the judges of the Dis- 
trict Court in Pennsylvania. 

But it was the social side of Judge Peters which is most inter- 
esting and for which he is best recalled. He is said to have had an 
unrivalled wit, which was the delight of his friends. 

Washington was a frequent visitor to "Belmont." On one occa- 
sion, just before he retired from the presidency, he planted a fine 
walnut tree on the place. Many years later Lafayette also planted 
a tree. Both grew to splendid maturity and flourished for many 
years. A list of the famous men of the Revolution and the great 
travellers from Europe who visited "the tasty little box," in "the 
most enchanting spot that Nature can embellish," as the Marquis of 
Chastellux described the mansion in 1780, would be a very long one. 
No guest of note failed to drive out from the city to visit Judge 
Peters at "Belmont." 

The estate after his death in 1828 remained in the possession 
of his family, but, when the Columbia Railroad was built in 1832, 
the quiet of the country-seat was disturbed by the operations of the 
Inclined Plane. In 1867, when Fairmount Park was enlarged, "Bel- 
mont" w^as acquired for public use, together with the large tracts 
adjoining — "Lansdowne," "Sweet Brier," etc. The old mansion, 
remodelled to some extent, was converted into a restaurant, and this 
it has since remained. In 1876, during the great Centennial Expo- 
sition, the pageant field served as the site of the Agricultural Build- 
ing. To Belmont Station at the foot of the field at the river side 
crowds of people came daily to visit the great international festival 
in honor of the one hundredth anniversary of the Declaration 
of American Independence. 



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Conbenerg of tfje Vetoing parties 



MRS. MORRIS LLEWELLYN COOKE 

MRS. SARA P. SNOWDEN MITCHELL 

MRS. SARA LOUISA OBERHOLTZER 

MISS M. BERTHA STUART 

MRS. FRANCIS HOWARD WILLIAMS 

MRS. ANNA REZER 

MRS. CHARLES L. MITCHELL 



MRS. ELIZABETH F. POTTS 

MISS MARY E. PARKER 

MISS MARY S. HOLMES 

MRS. T. WORCESTER WORRELL 

MRS. GARDINER WILKINS 

MRS. HELENA SCHUEHLER 



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MISS FANNY D. ABBOT 

MRS. RICHARD C. ALLEN 

MISS MARY P. ALLEN 

MRS. I. AMBROSE 

MISS JULIA ARNER 

MRS. B. R. BOGGS 

MRS. SYLVANIA PENN BULKLEY 

MRS. IDA BULLEY 

MRS. W. H. BROOKS 

MISS MARY BURROUGHS 

MRS. C. E. BUZ BY 

MRS. LAURA BECK 

MRS. RUDOLPH BLANKENBURG 

MRS. HARRY CARVER 

MISS ELIZABETH CHAPMAN 

MRS. LOUISA CLARK 

MRS. MARTHA COOPER 

MRS. ROBERT T. CORSON 

MRS. THOMAS CREIGHTON 

MISS MABEL CORSON 

COUNTESS DE SANTA EULALIA 

MISS LENA COTTMAN 

MISS M. AUGUSTA CUTLER 

MRS. WILLIAM DANIELS 
MRS. JOHN DAVIS 
MISS HELEN DEVERUX 
MRS. MARY DISNEY 
MISS DITMAN 
MRS. JAMES E. DOW 
MISS ROSA DUCKWORTH 
MISS FLORENCE DUNLOP 
MISS ANNETTE DUTT 

MISS BARBARA V. EARHART 
MISS BESSIE H. EARHART 
MISS MABEL W. EDDY 
MRS. W. EDWARDS 
MRS. W. T. EWING 
MRS. L. M. EVANS 
MISS EMMA ESCHSTRUTH 
MRS. IDA ESSER 

MRS. CHARLES A. FARNUM 
MRS. FAUGHT 
MRS. F. L. FOWLER 



MISS REBA GARWOOD 

MRS. J. C. GOUGH 

MRS. ANNA GLENN 

MRS. WILLIAM JEFFERSON GUERNSEY 

MRS. GUERNSEY A. HALLOWELL 

MRS. JULIAN T. HAMMOND, JR. 

MISS LILLIE M. HEINSOATH 

MISS IDA HOLTZBAUER 

MISS EMILY HOLTZBAUER 

MISS MARIAN S. HILLES 

MRS. FERDINAND W. HORMANN 

MISS MARY HORROCKS 

MISS ELIZA B. HORROCKS 

MRS. MARY HUGHES 

MRS. HANNAH K. HUMMEL 

MRS. FRANK M. HUTCHINSON 

MRS. EMELINE F. HAMMET 

MRS. FRANK IRISH 
MISS HELEN T. IDE 

MRS. WALTER M. JAMES 
MRS. T. W. JACKSON 
MISS DOMICELLA JEFFERIES 
MRS. URETTA J. JOHNSON 
MISS GERTRUDE JOHNSON 
MISS LILLIE JACKSON 
MRS. T. W. JENKINS 
MRS. J. E. JONES 
MISS JENNIE C. JONES 
MRS. ANNA R. JONES 

MRS. CLARENCE KAEBER 

MRS. ROBERT KEEN 

MRS. M. KEENAN 

MISS IRMA KIR3Y 

MRS. JOSEPHINE KINKERTER 

MRS. CURTIS KUHNERT 

MRS. GORDON LEVIS 
MRS. J. BAKER LEVIS 
MRS. LEROY LEVIS 
MISS LOBENGAER 
MISS HARRIET T. LEWIS 
MRS. SAMUEL P. LUMMUS 
MRS. M. D. LEARNED 



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MISS M. CLARA MARKLE 

MRS. JOSEPH MASS 

MRS. JAMES MEAD 

MRS. LENA MAHAFFEY 

MISS EMMA T. MANN 

MRS. J. CLARK MILLER 

MRS. SAMUEL V. MENCH 

MRS. S. MITCHELL 

MRS. C. MITCHELL 

MISS LULU MITCHELL 

MISS SARA MILLS 

MRS. JOSEPH P. MUMFORD 

MRS. JOHN McBRIDE 

MISS ROSE McDonald 

MRS. CHARLES P. McLEAN 
MRS. EDWARD MacINALL 
MISS SYLVANIA MacVAUGH 
MRS. MARTIN NIXON-MILLER 

MRS. A. R. F. NESBITT 

MISS ELIZA OBERHOLTZER 
MRS. CLARA OGDEN 
MRS. ISABEL I. OTTER 

MRS. ALFRED PEIFFER 

MRS. NATHAN PENNYPACKER 

MRS. MAY PINKEHAM 

MISS JOSEPHINE POPE 

MISS M. PETERSON 

MISS E. POTTER 

MRS. E. POTTS 

MRS. F. A. PRESSELL 

MISS EMELINE POTTS 

MISS BRIDGET QUINLIVAN 

MISS ELSIE I. REIZ 

MISS MARTHA I. REIZ 

MRS. FRANK READ 

MRS. MAGGIE REZER 

MRS. D. STUART ROBINSON 



MRS. THOMAS ROBERTS 
MRS. ELIZABETH ROBINSON 

MISS CONNIE SALTER 

MRS. CARL SCHNEIDER 

MRS. GRANT SHIELDS 

MISS LYDIA B. SMEDLEY 

MISS CAROLINE W. SMEDLEY 

MISS MARGARET SMITH 

MISS ANNA M. SMITH 

MRS. USELMA SMITH 

MRS. GEORGE H. SMITH 

MISS HANNAH C. SPARKS 

MISS MARY STUARD 

MISS ANNETTA V. STUART 

MISS EMILY M. STUART 

MRS. NELLIE STAUDENMAGER 

MRS. WALTER H. STERLING 

MRS. WILLIAM STANSFIELD 

MISS EMILY F. SEAL 

MRS. JOSEPH STONE 

MRS. JUSTICE TAYLOR 
MRS. J. B. THOMAS 
MRS. EDWARD LEE TILTON 
MRS. MORRIS THOMAS 
MISS MARY THOMPSON 

MRS. MARY VAN DUESEN 
MISS C. VanGILDER 
MRS. CORA VICKERS 

MRS. E. WAGER-SMITH 

MISS FLORENCE WARREN 

MRS. R. E. WILLIAMS 

MISS ANNA WOOLMAN 

MISS EDNA R. WORRELL 

MRS. ANNA WILLIS 

MRS. MAMIE WILSON 

MRS. ROBERT WILLIAMS 

MISS SUSAN B. WRIGHT 

MRS. RICHARD YERKES 
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Ahra.Mvc Material C<) i.^.^ 

Alpliia Knitting Mills N4 

Alta Friendly Society lo:) 

American A.!;ricultural Chemical Co..-- l<5 

American 1 )ye Works 196 

American Line ^7" 

American Pulley Co 1-^6 

Andrew's Mill Co I97 

Apartment P'lals it^J 

Autocar Company I7- 

Ayer. N. W.. & Son 201 

Harrow. \V. Bruce i/O 

ilaton. Henry K I59 

Bergman, A I94 

Best Kid Co i-^o 

Bioren & Co lOl 

Boch. Anthony 93 

Bond. Charles. Co 131 

Bonwit. Teller & Co 93 

Boycrtown Burial Casket Co 166 

Bradley, Milton, Co 1 17 

Brann & Stuart Co 160 

Buchanan Co., Geo. H I99 

Burton, Andrew. Co i54 

Caldwell. J. E.. & Co 90 

Cantrcll Construction Co 160 

Capper, John I9- 

Carson, John W I97 

Carstairs & Brown 103 

Carver, C. R.. Co I95 

Chandler Bros. & Co loi 

Chapin, George W I94 

Christ Bros. Mfg. Co 198 

Clark's Iron Foundry 1-^7 

Cleveland Worsted Mills Co 150 

Colonial Trust Co 99 

Commonwealth Title Insurance and 

Trust Co 96 

Connell, Joseph R 170 

Continental Dye Works 186 

Continental Motel 187 

Cope, E. M., & Co 152 

Costello & Co 159 

Cox's, C. A., Sons 186 

Cramp, Mitchell & Shober 100 

Crowther. Harry 131 

Dannenbaum's, L.. Son &: Co 140 

Day & Zinnnermami if" 

De Frain Sand Co 158 



Delise, Donalo 185 

Den^ler, Daniel S., & Son. Inc 114 

Dennison Mfg. Co 106 

Dick Brothers & Co 102 

Dilkes, G., & Co 1-^2 

Diller, Caskey & Keen 126 

Disston, Henry, & Sons, Inc 123 

Doak, James G., & Co 159 

Dorey, Daniel I43 

Dorney, James D 185 

Dunlai) Printing Co 177 

Dyer, John T., Quarry Co 132 

Eagle Suspender & Belt Co., Inc 199 

Eastlakc Mfg. Co I57 

Edgewater Finishing Co I49 

Edmonds, G. W., & Co 136 

Eisenmann, John, & Co 188 

Electric EH'e Works 1 54 

Elevator Construction & Repair Co.... ni 

Elkins, Krumbhaar & Morris 98 

Ellison, John B., & Sons I37 

Ellsworth, A. M., Inc 190 

Empire Auto Top Co., Inc I74 

Enterprise Stove Works 126 

Flrnst Bros., Bernhard I99 

Felton, Sibley & Co., Inc 168 

Fenton Label Co., Inc 107 

Finberg, Benjamin 170 

Fleischman's, V. M., Bakery 178 

Foerderer, Robert H.. Inc 118 

Foley, John A 152 

Foster, Benjamin, Co 166 

Frankford Waste Co I53 

Fraternal Mystic Circle 107 

Freihofer V. M. Baking Co 114 

Fritz. Horace H 169 

Gaede, Miss 181 

Gailey, Davis, & Co 176 

Galbraith, John 184 

Genth, Charles 11 183 

Girard Life Insurance Co 103 

Girard National Bank 102 

Glase, Hall & Boles 140 

Globe Indemnity Co 198 

Graves, X. Z.. Co 167 

Grim. R. E I73 

(iroswitb. Charles T 162 

I lalkett. Rogers & Co., Inc I94 

Hall. Amos H.. Son & Co 130 



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Harris, T. A., & Co iS6 

Hasselberg Bros 197 

Hastings & Co 120 

Harvey Carpet Co 1 79 

Heinemann, Geo.. & Co 187 

Hell wig Silk Dyeing Co 156 

Henry & West 99 

Herb, M 186 

Hess-Bright Mfg. Co 127 

Higgins, Robert 190 

Hires Co., Charles E 191 

Hodgson & Beatty 180 

Hohlfeld Mfg. Co 156 

Hoskins, Wm. H., Co 165 

Hotel Hanover 108 

Hughes & Russum 128 

Hulton Dyeing & Finishing Co., Inc.. 154 

Humphrys, D. C, Co 198 

Huneker & Son, Inc 133 

Independence Trust Co 98 

Indu.strial Tape Mills Co 148 

Insinger Co 121 

International Mercantile Marine Lines. 176 

Irvin, Harold C 168 

J. M. Shock Absorber Co I73 

Jackson, J. T., Co 169 

Jefferson Fire Insurance Co 105 

Jefferson Machine Works 183 

Jermyn, W., & Sons I33 

Johnson, Chas. Eneu, & Co 188 

Jordan. J. H 186 

Kedward, Wm., Dyeing Co 156 

Keith's, B. F., Theatre 107 

Kendle, F. Mellen 190 

Ketcham, O. W 162 

Keystone Coal & Coke Co 136 

Keystone Leather Co 182 

Keystone Mutual Fire Insurance Co... 104 

Klebansky, Wolf 188 

Kohn, Adler & Co 140 

Kreeger & Connolly 193 

Krewson, T. C 197 

Krumm, A. C, & Son 113 

Kuhn, J. S. & W. S., Inc lOi 

Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co 135 

Lentz, Charles, & Sons 120 

Lesher- Warner Dry Goods Co 139 

Lewis, H. & W. H 151 

Lindley, George W 129 

Linton. Horace. & Bro 178 

Lippincott, J. B., Co 116 

Lippincott, Johnson & Co 179 

Liverpool and London and Globe Ins. 

Co., Ltd 198 

Logan Trust Co 99 



Loomis-Manning Filter Distributing 

Co 176 

Lorimer's, W^m. H., Sons' Co 155 

Lucas, John, & Co 168 

Lymam Tire & Rubber Co 174 

McAdoo & Allen 119 

McCahan, W. J., Sugar Refining Co... no 

McKee & Co 136 

McNeely & Price 119 

McNiece, Wm., & Son 126 

Mader, Frank 189 

Manton Mutual Fire Ins. Co 104 

Manufacturing Company of America.. 114 

Margerison, W. H. & A. E., & Co 148 

Mark, Frank, Contracting Co 161 

Martin, John 184 

Maxwell & Berlet. Inc 91 

Meehan, Thomas, & Sons 115 

Mellor & Petry 102 

Metz, M. A 144 

Meyer, Robert 155 

Miller, Bain, Beyer & Co 139 

Miller, Charles W 169 

Mitchell Bros 178 

Montague & Co in 

Montgomery, Wm.. & Co in 

Moore, Alfred F 163 

Moore & White Co 192 

Moxey, Edward P., & Co 103 

Mueller, A. E., & Co 170 

Murphy-Parker Co 122 

Mutual Machine Works 128 

National Chewing Gum Co 113 

National Mutual Assurance Co 104 

National Surety Co 105 

Nice, Eugene E 168 

O'Neill, Jerry, & Co 185 

Otis Elevator Co 127 

Otto Gas Engine Works 128 

Pabst & Co 195 

Paiste. H. T.. Co 164 

Park Hotel (The) 109 

Patterson. Robt.. & Son 161 

Patton, Robert 160 

Penn Dye Works 1 54 

Pcnn Mutual Life Insurance Co 104 

Pennsylvania Company for Insurances 
on Lives and Granting Annuities.. 95 

Pequignot. Z.J 92 

Perry, Fergus I55 

Philadelphia Felt Co 152 

Philadelphia Gear Works 182 

Philadelphia Metallic Bed Co 121 

Philadelphia Sa.sh Weight Works 129 

Philadelphia Saving Fund Society 94 

Philadelphia Textile Machinery Co.... 128 
Phosphor Bronze Smelting Co 132 



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Pioneer SuspeniKr Co 141 

Provident l.ifi' \- 'i'riist Co gj 

Priulontial Worsted Co 150 

Pullman Taxicab Co 171 

Kan, William 11 iy5 

Read, Wm. 1"\, & Sons Co 143 

l\rill\ . Thomas iS,^ 

l\i.uner. -M i_'l 

Ueyhurn Mfg. Co 1 20 

l\iilg\va_\ Refrigerator Co I(j8 

iviehm Knitting Mills, Inc 152 

i\ienzi, Luigi 92 

Kittenli.iuse (The) 108 

Roberts Eleetric Snpjjly Co., H. C 165 

Roberts Embroidery Co 1 53 

Roelofs, Henry H., & Co 145 

Roosevelt Worsted Mills 194 

R<\val ( The ) 109 

Royle, George, & Co 149 

Samuel, Frank 129 

Saunders, W. B., Co 202 

Schell, Longstreth & Co 142 

Schnitzler, Charles II 121 

Seholler Bros. Co 157 

Schrack & Sherwood 166 

Schwarz Wheel Co 1 73 

Schweigart Bros ig6 

Schwenk & Caldwell 114 

Sellers. Wm., & Co., Inc 125 

Sbeip & Vandegrift, Inc 191 

Sheppard, Isaac A., & Co 124 

Shoemaker, Benjamin H 130 

Siefert, Theo. F 92 

Siner, H. M. & C. B 200 

Smalley, W. V 193 

Scbmalzbach. S 181 

Smedley Bros. Co 198 

Smith, H. B., Co 177 

Smith, Robert, Sons 113 

Smith, Thomas B., Co 105 

Southern, Wm. B 165 



.Soutbweslern Xalinnal I'ank 98 

Sower, Christopher, Co 117 

Sprague Worsted Mills 199 

Standard Refrigerator Co 177 

Star & Crescent Co 150 

Stead & Miller Co 146 

Sternbcrger, Samuel, Co 143 

Supplee Hardware Co 131 

Swoyer, Jos. O., & Co 142 

Taulane, Lewis A 187 

Tioga Steel & Iron Co 198 

The Autocar Co 172 

The Park Hotel 109 

'Ihe Riltenhouse 108 

The Royal 109 

Thomson, Peter 93 

Thurber, Stephen 183 

Turner Concrete Steel Co 189 

Union Casualty Insurance Co 180 

Union Paving Co 162 

United Fruit Co 175 

Univer.sal Dye Works 151 

Walton, Jacob W., Sons 115 

Warnick, Benjamin C, & Co 99 

Webb, Charles J., & Co 142 

Weber. F., & Co 165 

Weightman Hotels 108-109 

Weimar Brothers 147 

Wenger, Morris, Inc 181 

Westmoreland Coal Co 134 

Wetherill, Geo. D., & Co., Inc 184 

Whetstone & Co., Inc 130 

Whiteside & McLanahan 169 

Wick Narrow Fabric Co 146 

Williamson & Cassedy 131 

Wilson, James L., & Co 141 

Wilson, Wm. H., & Co 187 

Wolf & Co 197 

Wolfington's, Alex., Son 174 

Woll, F. P., & Co 198 

Young, Charles W., & Co 112 

Young, Smyth, Field Co 138 




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been pre eminently the fore- 
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the caldwell collections pre 
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forthe selection of r\re pearls 
and pearl necklaces; diamonds 
and colored gems of highest 
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PENDANT TtCLA SAPPHIRE AND GENUINE DIAMONDS 
BAYADERE— TECL.A PEARLS AND GENUINE DIAMONDS 

COURTESY OF MAXWELL &. BERLET, incorporated 

Walnut Street at 16th. Philadelphia 

M arlborough-Blenheim, Atlantic City, N. J. 

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JEWELS 

IMPORTER OF 
PEARLS AND NECKLACES 

CREATOR OF COLLIERS 

PLAQUES, TIARAS 
AND OTHER JEWELED ADORNMENTS 

1331 Walnut Street 



LUIGI RIENZI 

IMPORTER 

1714 Walnut Street 
Philadelphia 



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An Authoritative Display o f Aut umn and Winter Fashions 

High Grade Wearing Apparel 
for Women, Misses and Girls 

Importations direct from the most important Coutouriers 
of Europe together with our own creations, and the choicest 
motifs of the foremost American makers are on view. 

Oar styles you will find exclusive 
and our prices decidedly moderate. 



New York 



BoNwiT, Teller ^ Co. 

PHILADELPHIA 



Paris 



Sailor Suits a Specialty 

No Agencies Made to Order Only 



PETER THOMSON 
Cailor 

For 
Men, Women and Children 



1118 WALNUT STREET 
PHILADELPHIA 

AND 

634 FIFTH AVENUE 

opposite St. Patrick's Cathedral 

NEW YORK, N. Y. 



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Established December 2, 1816 Incorporated February 25, 1819 




THE PRESENT OFFICE BUILDING 

of 

THE OLDEST SAVING BANK IN AMERICA 



July 1, 1912 

Assets, $120,488,400.81 Deposits, $107,678,256.96 

Number of Depositors, 276,978 



OFFICERS 

G. COLESBERRY PURVES, President 
JAMES M. WILLCOX, Vice-President SAMUEL WOODWARD, Secretary and Treasurer 

ALVIN S. FENIMORE, Assistant Secretary THOMAS J. BECK, Assistant Treasurer 

J. PERCY KEATING, Solicitor 



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Edward H. Coates 
H. W^. Biddle 
John T. Morris 
G. Assheton Carson 
Effingham B. Morris 
Arthur E. Newbold 
AA/illiam 'W. Justice 



MANAGERS 

C. S. W. Packard 
J. Rodman Paul 
Charles E. Ingersoll 
G. C. Piirves 
T. DeWitt Cuyler 
Francis I. Gowen 
John 'W. Pepper 
Charles Biddle 



ROBERT H. FELS, Comptroller 



George McCall 
Henry H. Collins 
Charles B. Penrose, M. D. 
John B. Morgan 
James Logan Fisher 
Robert C. Drayton 
Alba B. Johnson 
Francis A. Lewis 



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The 
Pennsylvania Company 

for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities 

Trust and Safe Deposit Company 



Capital, $2,000,000 Surplus, $4,000,000 



517 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia 

Broad Street Office, Franklin Bank Building 



C. S. W. PACKARD, President 



Invites Accounts of Individuals and Corporations 

Trusts of every description Executed 

Safe Deposit Boxes Rented 

Makes Loans on First Mortgages on Improved Real Estate 

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SURPLUS, $1,250,000.00 



W^)t Commonbaealtf) 
tttitle Sns^urance anb Wcn^i Campan|> 

Chestnut and T-welfth Streets 
PHILADELPHIA 



Pays Interest on Daily Balances 

Insures Titles to Real Estate 

Rents Safe Deposit Boxes $3 to $100 

Takes Entire Charge of Real Estate 
Acts as Executor, Administrator, Guardian and Trustee 
Wills Receipted For and Kept 'Without Charge 



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^ Monthly Statements 
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^ Travelers' Cheques 

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THE NORTH AMERICAN BUILDING 



Capital and Surplus 



$1,800,000 



Transacts a general Trust Company business. 

Acts as Administrator, Executor, Guardian, Trustee, Assignee, etc. 

Pays interest on deposits. 

Safe deposit vaults. 

DIRECTORS 

CHARLES B. DUNN. President 



RODMAN WANAMAKER 
\^ILLIAM L. NEVIN 
ROBERT M. COYLE 
LOUIS S. FISKE 
JOHN C. LOWRY 



CHRISTIAN C. FEBIGER 

JAMES DOBSON 

\V. FREDERICK SNYDER 

JOHN J. COLLIER 

J. ERNEST RICHARDS 



ROBERT R. DUNN 



5^ational Panfe 

Broad and South Streets 
Philadelphia 



President 
WILLIAM J. BARR 

Vice President 
JOHN HUNTER 

Cashier 
JOHN T. SCOTT, Jr. 

Assistant Cashier 
GEORGE H. WIGGINS 

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John Hunter 
Edmund Webster 
Christopher Gallagher 
John T. Scott, Jr. 

Jacob C 



Charles Young 
W^illiam Kelley 
William S. Fox 
John J. Hitschler 
John M. Dotterer 
Kahn 



ELKINS, KRUMBHAAR 
AND MORRIS 

BANKERS 

LAND TITLE BUILDING 



Investment Securities 



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Make Loans Subiect to Approved Collateral 



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Henry & West 

BANKERS 

1417 Chestnut Street 
PHILADELPHIA 

A general Banking Business transacted. 
Fiscal Agents for Railroads and other Corpora- 
tions. 
Dealers in high-grade Investment Securities. 
Interest allowed on Deposit Accounts. 



Members New York and Philadelphia 
Stock Exchanges 



We always have on hand a list of high-grade 

Bonds. 
Correspondence invited. 



Information concerning Securities you hold or 

contemplate purchasing will be 

furnished on request 



"Too Young to Work" 
-"Too Old 
to Work " 




— the time between is alarm- 
ingly short. Capitalize it by 
opening one of the new 
limited checking accounts in 
the Colonial Saving Fund — it 
encourages economy and your 
savings work for you. Four 
cheques a month allowed with- 
out notice in the Saving Fund 
Department. Send for descrip- 
tive circular or call today. 



The Colonial Trust Company 

Market at Thirteenth 
Philadelphia 



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INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSITS 
TRAVELLERS' LETTERS OF CREDIT 
AND DRAFTS ISSUED PAYABLE IN 
THE PRINCIPAL CITIES OF EUROPE 



INVESTMENT SECURITIES 



MEMBERS 

PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE 
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE 



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J. S. & W. S. KUHN 



INCORPORATED 



INVESTMENT BANKERS 



LONDON, ENG. 

Pinner's Hall, Austin Friars 



PHILADELPHIA 
Real Estate Trust Bldg. 



BOSTON 

Kuhn, Fisher &j Co. 



ESTABLISHED 1865 



BIOREN & CO 

BANKERS 
314 CHESTNUT STREET 

Investment Securities 



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BANKERS 

Philadelphia Ofl&ce : 
1338 Chestnut Street 

New York, N. Y.: Ill Broadway 

Boston, Mass.: 24 Milk Street 

Lancaster, Pa.: Woolworth Building 

London : 5 Copthall Court 

We invite inquiries from those consider- 
ing the purchase or sale of investment 
securities and take pleasure in placing 
our facilities at their disposal. Our 
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^^ tions is The Girard National Bank, located at 

1 1 6 South Third Street in the original building 
erected by the Bank of the United States in 1 795. 
This building was purchased by Stephen Girard in 

1813, and occupied by him until his death in 1 83 1 
and by the Girard Bank and the Girard National 
Bank since 1 832. 

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Patentee and Sole Manufacturer of 

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For the handling of wool and cotton stock, 
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was founded by BANCROFT & SELLERS in the 
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with the manufacture of Mill Gearing with interchangeable 
parts, and subsequently the manufacture of Machine Tools 
as a distinct branch of business. In 1853 the Works were 
removed to their present location between 16th and 17th 
Streets, Pennsylvania Ave. and Buttonwood Street. In 1855 
the firm name was changed to WM. SELLERS & CO., and 
in 1886 the business was incorporated under the title 

WM. SELLERS & CO., INCORPORATED 

It early gained a local reputation for good workman- 
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which advantages it has maintained, and its reputation for 
superior design and workmanship is world wide. 

Its principal products are : 

MACHINE TOOLS for working iron and steel 

HYDRAULIC MACHINERY, CRANES 
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Its first important public exhibit was at Paris in 1867, 
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received a Certificate of the highest character. In fact, 
this House has received the highest awards at all Inter- 
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Saw Manufacturers 



Special Attention given to Setting and Filing 

Hand and Circular Saws. Carpenters' 

Tools Grinding. 

Bookbinders' and Planing Knives 
Ground 



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1912 



Harmony Ranges 
Harmony Furnaces 

Have stood the tests for 

Twenty-five Years 

Their reputation for Quahty and 
Durabihty is as firm and unshaken as 
the 

Constitution of the 
United States 

Manufactured by 

DiHer, Caskey £? Keen 

Enterprise Stove "Works 

S. W^. Cor. Sixth and Berks Streets 

PHILADELPHIA, PA. 

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In 1904 tliis Company bej^aii to import tlie now internationally famous D\\'F ball bearings. These bearings 
had three years previously made their Kuropean debut in the then new Mercedes automobiles, and were even at 
that time giving promise of revolutionizing anti-frittion design. 

The great European success of the DWF bearings was duplicated in this country, and the business grew so 
rapidiv that the C\)ni[)any moved every year or two into larger (juarters. The attempt to manufacture here had to 
be temporarily abandoned, owing to the impossibility of transplanting the technical methods on a sufficiently 
large scale. After the fourth removal, the Company has now the nucleus of a manufacturing business of its own in 
the Hne new building at Front Street and Erie Avenue. 

HESS-BRIGHT (DWF) Ball Bearings are largely used in many sorts of heavy duty, such as line-shaft 
hangers, machine tools, flour milling and woodworking machinery, trolley cars and mine locomotives, as well as 
in automobiles. 



BOTH PHONES 

CLARK'S IRON FOUNDRY 

J. ALFRED CLARK 
Proprietor 

35th Street, Gray's Ferry Road 

and Wharton Street 

PHILADELPHIA 



GENERAL FOUNDERS 

High-Grade Castings in Loam, 
Green and Dry Sand 



Chemical Work a Specialty 
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Company 

12th and Sansom Streets 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

Offices in all principal Cities of the World 

Over fifty-five years' experience and success 

in solvinjj all kinds of elevator problems. 

We build and erect 

All Types of Elevators 
for All Kinds of Power 

including Otis " Traction" and " Drum" 
Type Passenger and Freight Elevators — 
Otis Inclined Freight Elevators and Horiz- 
ontal Carriers — Otis Escalators or Moving 
Stairways, and Moving Sidewalks — Otis 
Spiral Gravity Conveyors and Otis Auto- 
matic Push-button Elevators, and Dumb- 
waiters for private residences. 

Inquiries Invited 

on any question involving the conveyance 
of Passengers and Freight from level to level 
or horizontally to widely separated points. 



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The Proctor Drying machines of various types are used for 
drying all kinds of materials. Economy of time, labor and 
floor space are among the benefits derived from their use. 

Tae Pailadelpria Texti le Macainery Co. 

Philadelphia Pa. 




The First 

Gas Engines made 

in this country 

were built in the 
Otto Plant at Philad'a 

Still made here and 

Still the Standard 

of the World 

Visitors Always Welcome 

The Otto 
Gas Engine Works 

33d and Walnut Streets 
West Philadelphia, Pa. 




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Mutual Machine Works 

HUGHES & RUSSUM 
Proprietors 

Builders of 

Cotton, Woolen or Worsted 

Light and Heavy Duck 

Plush, Turkish Towel 

LOOMS 



For Weaving Hair Cloth, Broad 
Clipper, Jacquard Work 

HARNESS MOTIONS 
BEAMING MACHINES 

With All Latest Improvements 

Oxford and Hedges Streets 
Frankford, Philadelphia 

Special attention given to Repair Work, which 

we will furnish promptly and at reasonable 

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5120 Wakefield Street 

Germantown, Philadelphia 



Builder of Double Rib Machines, for Laces and Edgings and 
Lace Trimmings, for Underwear and Fancy Goods 



Ferro Manganese 
Ferro Silicon 



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Silico Spiegel 



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Iron, Manganese and Chrome 
Ores. Foundry, Mill and Low 
Phosphorus Irons. Howe and 
Samuel Special Low Phosphorus 
Melting Bar. 



MAIN OFFICE 
Harrison Building, Philadelphia 

NEW YORK OFFICE BOSTON OFFICE 

39 Cortlandt Street 10 Harris Avenue 

New York City Boston, Mass. 

WESTERN REPRESENTATIVES 
Walter- Wallingford & Co. 



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Philadelphia 
Sash Weight Works 

22d and Glenwood Avenue 



All kinds of 

SASH WEIGHTS 

LoomL Weights, Hitching 
W^eights, Elevator, Fire- 
Escape and "Weights of 
every description. 



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President 



BELL AND KEYSTONE 
TELEPHONES 



EDGAR W^. KOONS 

Sec'y and Treas. 



WHETSTONE & CO. mc 

Wrought Iron and Steel Pipe 

Valves, Fittings, Tools, Etc. 

Pertaining to Steam, Gas, Vater, Oil and Air 



Office and Store: 911 FILBERT STREET 
PHILADELPHIA 



■Warehouse 
N. E. Cor. 25th and South Streets 



Pipe Shop 
908 Cuthbert Street 



Window Glass 

PLATE GLASS 

Best Brands American Window 
Glass, French Window Glass, 
German Looking-Glass Plates, 
Ornamental and Sky-Light Glassi 

Greenhouse Glass, Glass 
for Conservatories 

BENJAMIN H. SHOEMAKER 

205, 207 and 209 N. Fourth Street 
Philadelphia, Penna. 



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Amos H. Hall, Son & Co. 

Manufacturers of 

CEDAR VATS 
AND TANKS 




2915 to 2933 

North Second Street 

Philadelphia 

Telephone Connection 



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** State the State" 
PENNSYLVANIA 




SiUppke Hdrdwdre CQWR^Y 

PHIlvADEl^PHIA. PENNSYLVANIA 



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Railway and Steamship 
Supplies 



526 Market Street 
PHILADELPHIA 



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Manufacturers of 

Oak Tanned 
Leather Belting 



Dealers in 



Power Transmitting 

Machinery 
and Mill Supplies 



520 Arch Street, Philadelphia 



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ELEPHANT BRAND jHE PHOSPHOR BRONZE SMELTING CO. 



2200 WASHINGTON AVENUE, PHILADELPHIA. PA. 

ELEPHANT BRAND WL/JeiMc,m 



REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. 



INGOTS. CASTINGS. WIRE. SHEETS. RODS, Etc. 

— DELTA METAL — 

IN BARS FOR FORGING AND FINISHED RODS 
ORIGINAL AND Sole Makers in the U. S. 



PHOSPHOR BRONZE 



The John T. Dyer Quarry Co. 



Business Established 1891 



Norristown, Penna. 



BIRDSBORO TRAPPE ROCK 



Harrison Building 
Philadelphia 



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"ABRASIVE" 

Fast Grinding 
WHEELS 

Abrasive Wheels are made of natural 
or artificial abrasives, or the proper 
combination of both to best suit your 
particular grinding problem. 

Will not glaze over or overheat the 
work. Even the bond that holds the 
particles together has cutting properties. 

That's why Abrasive Wheels 

have earned the reputation that "They 
don't merely grind, but cut — cut fast 
and are durable. " 

Write for catalog today. 

ABRASIVE 
MATERIAL CO. 

James and Fraley Streets 
Bridesburg, Philadelphia 



W. Jermyn & Sons 

MILLINERY 
WIRES 

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Oxford and Josephine Streets 

Frankford 

Philadelphia 



Established 1844 



HUNEKER & SON 



INCORPOR.ATED 



Betoratins 



Sansom and Sixteenth Streets 
Philadelphia 



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COLLIERY OWNERS 
MINERS AND SHIPPERS OF 



THE STANDARD 



Westmoreland Coal 

Mines Located in 
Westmoreland County, Pa. 



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illuminating and for producer work. For brick and 
terra cotta manufacture, locomotive use, steam 
threshers, high pressure steaming and in all places 
where a strong and pure fuel is required it has 
no equal. 



Principal Office 

224 South Third Street 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

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NEW YORK 



SHIPMENTS BEGAN 



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MINED IN PENNSYLVANIA 




BOSTON 



STILL IN BUSINESS 



1912 



SOLD EVERYWHERE 



Sole Miners and Shippers of 

"Old Company's 
Lehigh" 

SUMMIT and 

GREENWOOD 

COALS 



S. D. WARRINER 
President 

ROLLIN H. WILBUR 
Vice-President 

RICHARD T. DAVIES 

General Coal Agent 

F. N. ULRICK 
Assistant General Coal Agent 



General Offices 



Lafayette Building 



437 Chestnut Street 



Philadelphia 



CARROLL MOORE, Sales Agent, 143 Liberty Street 
NEV/ YORK 

O. B. JOHNSON, Eastern Sales Agent, 141 Milk Street 

BOSTON 



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COAL AND COKE COMPANY 

MINERS AND SHIPPERS 

BITUMINOUS AND GAS 

COAL AND COKE 

Arcade Building, Philadelphia 



ROBERT K. CASSATT 

EASTERN MANAGER 



Ho Better Coal 
Comes out of the Ground 



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21st and Allegheny Ave. 



Telephones 
G. W. EDMONDS R. Y. WARNER 

G. W. Edmonds & Co. 

Anthracite and Bituminous 

COAL 

MAIN OFFICE 

N. \^. Cor. 9th and Berks Sts. 

YARDS 

9th St., Berks to Norris Sts. 
Tasker Street W^harf 
Ridge Ave. and Noble St, 
49th and Grays Ave. 

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Established 1823 by the hite John B. Ellison, Sr. 

JOHN B. ELLISON & SONS 

Wholesale Woolens 



AMERICAN OFFICES 



NEW YORK, 



( 259 Fifth Avenue 



I 180 Broadway 
BALTIMORE, 110 West Fayette Street 
BOSTON, 233 Iremont Building 
BUFFALO, Morgan Building 
CHICAGO, 1007 and 1008 Hartford Building 
CINCINNATI, Provident Bank Building 
CLEVELAND, 631 Garfield Building 
COLUMBUS, Columbus Trust Building 
DENVER, 329 Foster Building 
DETROIT, 1032 Majestic Building 
INDIANAPOLIS, Board Trade Building 
KANSAS CITY, Dvvight Building 
LOS ANGELES, 321 West Third Street 



MINNEAPOLIS, 705 Lumber Exchange Building 
MILWAUKEE, Wells Building 
NEW HAVEN, CONN., Cutler Building 
NEW ORLEANS, Whitney Bank Building 
NEWARK, 830 Broad Street 
OMAHA, Board of Trade Building 
PITTSBURGH, McCance Block 
PROVIDENCE, R. I., 301 Edwin A. Smith 

Building 
ROCHESTER, Granite Building 
SAN FRANCISCO, 227 Foxcroft Building 
ST. LOUIS, 707 Locust Street 
SEATTLE, 630 Lumber Exchange 
WASHINGTON, 522 Bond Building 



FOREIGN OFFICES 



PARIS, 18 rue Vivienne 
LYONS, 55 rue de THotel de Ville 
VIENNA, 1 Laurenzerberg 
HAMBURG, 6 Amdungstrasse 
LISBON, Rua dos Correeiors 71 
MILAN, ITALY, Piazza Casteilo 
ROME, 10 Collegio Capranica 
NAPLES, Piazza Nicola Amore 2 
MALTA, 56 Strada Stretta 
MADRID, Chinchilla 51 
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA 



CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA 
MEXICO CITY, Calljon de Sta Clara 1 
TURIN, Via Perrins 10 
GENES, Piassa S. Lucca 8 
BUENOS AYRES, 1215 Cangollo 
RIO DE JANEIRO, 58 Rua Sao Jose 
ASUNCION, (PARAGUAY) Alberdi 201 
ODESSA, 49 Basarnajastrasse 
PARA, Caixado Correio 300 
PERNAMBUCCO, Caixa Postal 199 
PALERMO, Via Principe Scordia 21 



This firm was established in 1823, and is the largest and oldest woolen house in 
America. They have warehouses in London and Philadelphia, and sales offices in all the 
principal cities in America and Europe, and distribute their goods to almost every part of 
the world. They carry a full line of goods suitable for Men's and Ladies" Tailoring 
Trade, Livery, Hunting and Riding Goods, Priestley's Cravenettes, etc. 



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22-24-26 South Sixth Street 

13-15-17 South Marshall Street 

Philadelphia 



ELLISON BUILDING 

5, 6 and 7 Golden Square W. 

33 and 34 Gt. Pulteney St. W. 

London 



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Stockii^s^ 

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Miller, Bain, Beyer ^ Co, 

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF 

DRY GOODS 

SPECIALTIES IN REMNANTS. SECONDS and JOBS 

1001, 1003, 1005, 1007 FILBERT STREET 
PHILADELPHIA 



Lesher- Warner Dry Goods Company 

429 Market Street PHILADELPHIA 418 Commerce Street 



Foreign and Domestic Dress Fabrics 
Cotton Dress Fabrics 

Decorative and Household Linens 
Table Damask, Curtains 

Draperies, White Goods 

Blankets and Comfortables 

Flannels, Domestics, etc. 

IMPORTERS AND DISTRIBUTORS 
OF DRY GOODS 

Visiting merchants are cordially invited to make our establishment 
their headquarters during the week 

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Glase, Hall & Boles 

Importers and Jobbers 



of 



Dry Goods 

513 Market Street 
Philadelphia 



Successors to the Oldest 

\*/holesale Dry Goods House 

in Philadelphia 

BARCROFT ^ CO. 

Established in 1818 



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Son &^ Company 

Manufacturers of 

Silks and Ribbons 



Owners and Operators 

Pine Tree Silk Mills 

808 Arch Street 
Philadelphia 



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Importers and Manufacturers 

of the 

PENN BRAND 
RIBBONS SILKS 
MILLINERY 

KOHN,ADLER&CO. 

PHILADELPHIA 



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NEW YORK. 48 Leonard Street 



JAMES L. WILSON £? COMPANY 

DRY GOODS COMMISSION MERCHANTS 



239 CHESTNUT STREET 
PHILADELPHIA 



Established 1877 



Pioneer Suspender Company 



Pioneer Suspenders 
Pioneer Belts Brighton Garters 



315 North Twelfth Street 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

Annual Production 

8,000.000 Pairs On Sale the World Over 

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Manufacturers of 



Woolen and Worsted Yarns 

■■ Mariner and Merchant Building 

Philadelphia, Pa. 



Chas. J. Webb & Co. 

116 Chestnut Street 
Philadelphia, Pa. 



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Wm. M. Longstreth 



Schell, Longstreth 6- Co. 

Cotton Yams 

230 and 232 Chestnut Street 
PHILADELPHIA 



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for a reputation — 
And keeps it by working harder 




The High Grade Shirt That^s Worth its Co^ 



Made by 

SAMUEL STERNBERGER COMPANY 

PHILADELPHIA 



DANIEL DOREY 

IMPORTER AND MANUFACTURER 
OF ALL KINDS OF 

hat and Cap 
Leathers and Springs 

No. 235 Race Street 
Philadelphia 



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you will find it in 

READ'S FABRICS 



More than 50 styles of 
ALL WORSTED 
DRESS GOODS 

Made in the same mill and enjoying 
the same reputation as 

LANSDOWNE 



Whose durabiliry and adaptability have 
earned and hold for it the title of 

"THE QUEEN OF 
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ESTABLISHED 1884 



ailpijia Enittins jWiUs; 



M. A. METZ, Prop 



ilanufacturers! of ^igf) #rabe ^toeatersi 



^ixtl) anb Spring (garbeu Streets; 



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The American lmprove<J 
PRE55E0 
Ql FINISHED * CURLED 
SlAjfi HAT 

^^^^Manufactured Soltly by 

HENRY H.ROELOFS 8c CO. 
»i"^?,^o PHILADELPHIA. 



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MANUFACTURERS 
PHILADELPHIA. 

U.S.A. 




Henry H. Roelofs & Co. 



OR ANY OF THE ROELOFS' 

TRADE MARKS 

IN YOUR 

SOFT OR STIFF HATS 

IS A 

GUARANTEE 

That you have THE BEST HAT 

THAT CAN BE MADE 

SOLD BY ALL DEALERS 



sfl&»The American Improveci 
,3« PRESSED 
T^FimSHEDAWD CURLED 
g}^ HAT 

I MAiufuMiiiouiT BY HENRY H.ROELOFS & CC 

'C" PHILADELPHIA. 



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"WEIGHT 

MAhluFACTURED BY 
-HENRY H.ROELOFS SCO. 
PHILADELPHIA. 





Jhe American Improved 
PRESSED 
FINISHED AND CURLED 
HAT 

MAnufAoSwY BY HENRY H.ROELOFS » CO 

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The New 
Non-Shrinkable Flannel 

is rigidly guaranteed not to shrink or fade when made up into 
Shirts, Shirt Waists, Pajamas, Children's Dresses, or any other 
garment. 



WICK NARROW FABRIC COMPANY 

SOLE PROPRIETORS 
FOR SALE ONLY IN FIRST CLASS STORES 



Philadelphia 



WESLEY STEAD 
President 



THEO. F. MILLER 
Secretary and Treasurer 



JNO. W. SNOWDEN 
Vice-Pres. and Gen'l Manager 



NEPAUL MILLS 



The Stead £? Miller Company 

Upholstery Goods and Draperies 

FOURTH £? CAMBRIA STREETS 
PHILADELPHIA 



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NEW YORK 



1602 Hey worth Building 
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Manufacturers of 



TAPES, BINDINGS 

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NARROW FABRICS 



2046-48 Amber Street 
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I. B. SCOVILL, Gen. Mgr. and Supt. 

Industrial Tape Mills Co. 

JASPER AND HUNTINGDON STREETS 

PHILADELPHIA, PA. 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

Narrow Fabrics 

SOLE MAKERS OF 

Saxon 

New Guaranteed 

Non-Shrinkable Tape 

ALSO 
Plain Tape and Stay Binding Braid for Underwear Trade 




COLUMBIA TOWEL MILLS. 




MANUfACTL' ~ t - ■> :/ 

TURKISH TOWELS, 
TERRY CLOTH, 




^ WASH CLOTHS 
BATH MATS 



NWcor [MERALDandSERGEANTSTS 



PHILADELPHIA, P^.. 



NEW YORK OFFICE: 51 LEONARD STREET 

^ The Products of our mills can be found on sale at all the Leading 

Department Stores in the United States. 
C[I All our goods are guaranteed to be right. 
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Dyeing, Sizing, Printing 

Agents and Napping of Un- office and Works 

Myrick & Rice bleached Cotton Piece ^^^o 

320 Broadway ^^^^^ ^^^ g^^j^p^ ^ ^ Frankford Ave. 



New York City 



Philadelphia, Pa. 




Home of 
Edgewater Finishing Co. 



PERRY BUILDING 



Home of 
Geo. Royle £? Co.'s Tapestries 



Geo. Royle ^ Co. 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

Couch Covers, Table Covers, Portieres, Piece Goods 

and Colored Burlaps 

4080-98 FRANKFORD AVENUE 

FRANKFORD, PHILADELPHIA 



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Prudential W^orsted Company 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



Worsted Fabrics for Men and Women 

Orthodox and Large Streets 
Frankford, Philadelphia 

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BIRCH AND JOEL 

MAX RIEDEL 
229 Fourth Avenue, New York 




in^^tmn and c^W^p 



THEO. F. MILLER F. LEIGHTON KRAMER 



Pres. and Gen'I Mgr. 



Vice-Pres. and Treas. 



Turkish Towels 
Turkish Bath Robes 



Star and Crescent Company 
Philadelphia 

New York Salesroom, 4th Ave. & 20th St. 



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H. &, W. H. LEWIS 

238 CHESTNUT STREET 

Commission Merchants 

WOOLENS AND WORSTEDS 

Men's Wear Uniform Cloths Women's Wear 

NEW YORK CHICAGO BOSTON 

215 Fourth Avenue 223 W. Jackson Boulevard 76 Bedford Street 



Established 1897 Bell Phone, Kens. 516 

Wipers Washed and Replaced in Good Order at Lowest Prices 

HARRY CROWTHER 

Manufacturer and Washer of 

SILK WIPING CLOTHS, ETC. 

They are used for cleaning all kinds of worsted, silk and 
cotton machinery, also engines, dynamos, automobiles. 
More economical and cheaper than any other kind of 
wiper or cotton waste in use. They are made from silk 
noils, and are non-combustible. All inquiries for samples 
will be cheerfully attended to. 

N. E. Cor. Rorer and Ontario Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. 



UNIVERSAL DYE WORKS 

DYERS OF HOSIERY AND YARNS 
COTTON. MERCERIZED. SILK. WOOL 

3213-15 Frankford Avenue and 3212-14 Amber Street 
PHILADELPHIA 




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Manufacturers of 

WOVEN FELTS 



Paper Makers Felts and Jackets 
Lithograph Flannel 
Printer Blankets 

Mangle Blanketing 



Laundry Felts 

Tanners Bolsters 

Wringer Sleeves 

Sieve Cloths, Etc. 

Piano Cloths 



Frankford, Philadelphia 



Cope 
Knitting Mills 



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E. M. COPE & CO. 

Pastorious Street 

Germantown 

Penna. 



Riehm Knitting Mills, Inc. 

SWEATERS 

SWEATER COATS 

KNIT GOODS 



MILL AND MAIN OFFICE 
Adams Avenue and Unity Street 

FRANKFORD, PHILA. 



NEW YORK OFFICE, 346 Broadway 



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I. M. MORITZ 



The Roberts Embroidery Co. 




OFFICE AND FACTORY: 3621 NORTH LAWRENCE STREET 

FIFTH STREET AND ERIE AVENUE 

P. R. R. STATION, North Penn Junction 

Embroidery Manufacturers of Every Description 

An Up-to-Date Equipped Factory 



MATTRESS TOPPINGS 



PACKING WASTE 



WIPING WASTE 



FRANKFORD WASTE COMPANY 

Manufacturers of 

COTTON AND \^OOLEN \^ASTE 

Van Dyke and Orchard Streets 
FRANKFORD, PHILADELPHIA 



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HULTON DYEING £? FINISHING CO. 



(INCORPORATED) 

2 712 JASPER STREET 

PHILADELPHIA 



Dyers of 

FAST COLORS 

W^oolen and "Worsted Yarns 

and Slubbing in the Ball 



Finishers of 
W^oolen and W^orsted Piece Goods 
Men's W^ear Fabrics 
Dress Goods, etc., etc. 



CHAS. E. WINSCH, Prop. 



Both Phones 



Electric Dye Works 
DYERS 

OF 

Mercerized and Cotton Yarns 

ALSO 

Tapes and Bleaching 
Fast Colors a Specialty 



3942-50 FRANKFORD AVE. 

PHILADELPHIA. PA. 



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Andrew Burton Co. 



PENN DYE WORKS 



Cotton, Woolen, Worsted 
and Hosiery Dyers 



Penn Street and Belfield Avenue 
Germantown, Philadelphia 



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MERCERIZED 
YARNS 

FoK ALL Purposes 



W^ H. LORIMER'S SONS' CO. 

ONTARIO AND LAWRENCE STREETS 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



CONES 
TUBES 
SKEINS 
WARPS 



FERGUS PERRY 

GERMANTOWN, PHILADELPHIA 



A very important branch of the textile industry 
is the manufarture of heavy and fine silk and cotton 
elastic cords, for use by the manufacturer of elastic 
stockings, bandages, etc., for surgical purposes. 
Here in the crude nursery and home of the knit 
goods development, this branch has a most able 
representative and very properly one which has 
attained a high national reputation for perfection 
and reliability, the mills founded and still controlled 
by Nlr. Fergus Perry, one of the living veterans in 
knitting mill inception and improvement. It was 
way back in 1853, when the knitting industry was 
just beginning to raise its head among commercial 
enterprises, that Mr. Vincent Perry commenced 
business on his own account in Ciermantown as a 
manufacturer of elastic stockings and bandages. 
Eight years after, when his son Fergus Perry became 
of age he was admitted to partnership. In 1870 
Mr. Perry started on his own account, but in 1884 
he abandoned this line of work and began the 
manufacture of elastic cords of a quality and 
adaptability for surgical appliances which at once 
arrested the attention and won the approval of 
manufacturers and surgeons. In 1897 he erected 
his present mills, at No. 5013 Wakefield Street, 
where he operated 12 modern covering machines, 
perfect winders, etc., by gas power, and produces 
an average output of 200 ()()unds per dav, which 
is sold to the manufacturers of the finest surgical 
hosierv. 



ROBERT cTWEYER 

Dyer of 

Fast Black and Fancy Colors on 

Silk and Cotton, Boot Pattern 

Mixed Goods, New Process 

Perfect Match 



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Main Office and Works 



Cedar and Cambria Streets, Philadelphia 

City Office: 246 Chestnut Street 
DYERS AND BLEACHERS COTTON AND MERCERIZED WARPS AND SKEIN YARNS 



The History of the Hammock 

is interwoven with the 
record and progress of 

The Hohlfeld 
Manufaciuriny Co. 




JACOB KNUP 
President 



WM. J. GUTEKUNST 
Vice-Pres. and Treas. 



Largest makers of 

Hammocks and Couches 

in the world 

Main Office and Mill 

Allegheny Avenue 9lh and 10th Streets 

(North) Philadelphia 

New York Sample Room 
Everett Building, 45 E. 17th Street 



THE HELLWIG 
SILK DYEING COMPANY 

Silk Dyers 

BLACK AND COLORS 

PURE DYE AND \(/EIGHTED 

TUSSAH AND ARTIFICIAL 

S. \^. Corner 

Ninth and Buttonwood Sts. 

Philadelphia, Pa. 



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Eastlake Manufacturing Co. 



MANUFACTURERS OF 



FURNITURE GIMPS 



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UPHOLSTERY FABRICS 



ALL GRADES OF 



Curtains, Piece Goods, Table and Couch Covers 

Mills and Main Office, Leiper and Adams Avenue 

FRANKFORD, PHILADELPHIA 

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SCHOLLER BROS. COMPANY' 

Manufacturers of 

Textile Soaps and Softeners 
of the Better Grade 

Specialties for Dyers, Bleachers and Finishers 

Amber and \A>stmoreland Streets 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

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BUILDING 
MATERIALS 

Beach jvnd Berks Streets 
BHTL ADEBPHI A 



TTTTT A T^^^T^t-. ,BeRKS StREET, DeL AAV ARE RlA^ER 

Christiaist S'^^reet, Schuylkilt. River 



Ir*ROi:>IJCERS OF STONE. ORAVEL AND SAND 

FOR Concrete Construction 

DELIVERIES RY TEAINI, RAIL OR ROAT 



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BUILDING CONSTRUCTION 

Crozcr Building, 1420 Chestnut Street 
PHILADELPHIA 



Manufacturing Plants 
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Contractor 

Builder 

General Building Construction 

N. E. Corner 

Tenth and Sansom Streets 

Philadelphia 

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Bank and Office Buildings 



COSTELLO & CO. 



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Contractors 



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CONTRACTORS 
AND ENGINEERS 





Real Estate Trust Building 
PHILADELPHIA 



J. T. STUART. President 
ANDY BRANN, Treasurer . WM. M. LAVERTY, Sec'y 



Brann & Stuart Company 



INCORPORATED 



Engineers and Contractors 

311 ARCADE BUILDING 
PHILADELPHIA 



ROBERT PATTON 



CONTRACTOR 



601 North Thirty-fourth Street 
Philadelphia 



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ENGINEERS 



608 CHESTNUT STREET 



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PLANT LAYOUT 

PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS 

CONSTRUCTION 



PUBLIC SERVICE 



EXAMINATIONS AND REPORTS 

ENGINEERING and CONSTRUCTION 

OPERATION 



Both Phones 



FRANK MARK 
CONTRACTING CO. 



General Contractors 
and Teamsters 



21st St. above Somerset St. 
Philadelphia 



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Keystone Telephone 
7-18 Race 



Bell Telephone 
9-17 Locust 



Robert Patterson & Son 

Wholesale and Retail Dealers in 

SAND 



Also 
JERSEY GRAVEL LIME AND CEMENT 



W^ashed and 
Screened Bar Sand 
and White Sand 



For "White-Coating 
Rough-Casting 
Cement- Work 



Cedar Hollow Lime. Plaster. Hair 
Crushed Stone. Slag and Grits 

Main Office 

Cherry Street Wharf 
Schuylkill River 

PHILADELPHIA 

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O. W. KETCHAM 

Manufacturer of 

Ornamental Terra Gotta 

Face Bricks Fire Proofing 

Roofing and Faience Tile 



24 South Seventh Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Factory, Crum Lynne, Pa. 

Concrete and Stone Foundation Work Cement Pavement and Cellar Digging 

Removal of Ashes 

CHARLES T. GROSWITH 

GENERAL CONTRACTOR 

No. 3435 Chestnut Street Philadelphia 

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CABLES 



For All Electrical Purposes 



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WEATHERPROOF WIRE 
MAGNET WIRE 
ANNUNCIATOR WIRE 
FLEXIBLE CORDS 



Particular Attention Given to 

Special and Experimental Work 



ALFRED F. MOORE 

200-218 North Third Street 

Cleveland Chicago Birmingham Louisville 

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PAISTE 

Electric Light Wiring Supplies 

Are Made 




A PHILADELPHIA ENTERPRISE 

(ESTABLISHED 1887) 

Devoted to Manufacturing 

Electric Light Wiring Devices 
of Highest Merit 

H. T. PAISTE COMPANY 

32d and Arch Streets, Philadelphia 

Catalog sent upon request to those interested in better ways of Electric Light Wiring 

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904-906 Chestnut Street 

Philadelphia's 
Stationer 



ELECTRIC 
SUPPLIES 

Lightinj^ 

Power 

Street Railway 

Telephone 

Marine 



Get our Catalogues and Prices 

H. C. ROBERTS ELECTRIC 
SUPPLY CO. 

905 Arch Street 
Philadelphia 

Branch Store at Syracuse, N. Y. 



^^HITE>^ASH 

Your Factory 

Stable 

Cellar, etc. 

By our new and sanitary method 




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W^indow Cleaning, Disinfecting 

W^rite for Estimate 

\VM. B. SOUTHERN 

N. W. Cor. 12th and Spruce Sts. 
Philadelphia 

Both Phones 



F. Weber & Co. 

ESTABLISHED 1854 
MANUFACTURERS— IMPORTERS 

Artists' Materials 

Engineers' and Draftsmen's 
Supplies 

Works on Art 

For Artists, Lithographers, 

Designers, Textile Manufacturers, 

Costumers, Architects 

1125 Chestnut Street 
PHILADELPHIA 



ST. LOUIS, MO. BALTIMORE, MD. 

CHICAGO 



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Boyer town Burial Casket Company 


Manufacturers of 


Bronze 


Metallic 


Hardwood 


Varnished 


and Cloth Covered Caskets 


Casket Interiors 


Burial Robes, Suits and Dresses 


Philadelphia 

1211-17 Arch Street 

New York, N. Y. Boyertown, Pa. 

109-11 W. 24th Street 

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BENJ. FOSTER R. H. PARISH 

Benjamin Foster Co. 


Schrack & Sherwood 

MANUFACTURERS 


SLAG AND PROMENADE 


1512 to 1520 Callowhill Street 


TILE ROOFING 


PHILADELPHIA 


WATERPROOFING 


iFtn^ luricil (ttaskpta 


3 Acres on City Hall 

6 Acres on Wanamaker Stores 

and on Morris Building 




Asphalt and Coal Tar 
Products 


Rope Portieres, Rug Fringes 


22d and Sedgely Avenue 


Upholstery Trimmings 


Philadelphia 


Draperies and Piece Goods 

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For 0/y/>/ Elegaijce Effects 
on Walls and Ceilings use 

Graves Perma-Tone 

T makes a durable, smooth, non-porous and germ- 
proof surface with a rich ve/vefy finish, a surface 
highly decorative, and in perfect taste. IVashable. 
Can be applied with success on plaster, woodwork, 
burlap, canvas, cement, metal work, etc. 

Perma-Tone is made in all the modish tints and presents 
a largess of selection, adapting it to the requirements of 
the most fastidious color schemes in Theatres, Oflice Build- 
ings, Public Halls, Hospitals, Fine Homes, etc. 

For Interior Woodwork use 
Graves STAIN-KRAFT 



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finish with one coat on interior woodwork such as 
Pine, Cypress, Oak, Birch, etc. 

STAIN-KRAFT enhances the beauty of the high lights 
and the grain of the wood. It's fast in color. Will not 
show laps nor raise the grain of the wood. Easy to apply. 



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'J. & D." Dept. 



N. Z. GRAVES CO., Inc. 
Philadelphia 



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The man who buys "F-S" Paint 
or Varnish is always in a hurry to 
put it on the job. He is anxious 
to see the results because he 
knows they will be most satis- 
factory from every standpoint. 
Send for sample card and full 
information. 

FELTON, SIBLEY & CO. 

Incorporated 

136-140 North Fourth Street 
Philadelphia 




Paint and Varnish Makers 
since 1849 

Philadelphia New York Chicago 

Boston Pittsburgh 



" Purposely made for every purpose'' 




VARNISHES 
FILLERS 
PAINTS 
STAINS 



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MANUFACTURER 

PHILADELPHIA 



A Wise Man Owns 
His Own Home 

Start To-day— A Few Hundred Dollars 

down when you buy and then you pay the 
rent to yourself. No hurry or worry. We 
can give you the best built house in the 
city with all the latest features ; 120 feet 
wide, on main street. 

26th & Allegheny Ave. 

Come and see these modern houses. 
Wide porches, large front lawns, hardwood 
finish, hot-water heat, basement laundry, 
combination gas and electric fixtures. 

And Other Up-to-Date Features 

In House Construction That Will Surprise You 

Excellent Train and Trolley 
Facilities 

Double line of trolleys on Allegheny Avenue 

Free transfers to nil downtown lines 

Both Pennsylvania and Reading Railway 

Stations within Four Squares 

Agent on Premises Sample House Open 

HAROLD C. IRVIN, 721 Walnut St. 



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President 



FRANK P. FELTON. JR. 
Vice President 



ALBERT T. YARNALL 

Tnosurcr 



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jSiB Estate 



Conveyancing 

Fire Insurance Mortgages 

Estates Managed 

Appraisements 

Jo To Jaclrisoin Coo 

S. E. Cor. Chestnut and 13th Sts. 

^^t^"^ OAK LANE 9PP2f"5 

Office the Station 






HORACE H. FRITZ 

Real Estate Broker 

713 WALNUT STREET 
PHILADELPHIA 



Expert attention to all transactions 
connected with Real Estate 



CHARLES W.MILLER HENRY T. GULLMANN 

CHARLES W. MILLER 

CONVEYANCER AND 
REAL ESTATE BROKER 



MOF^TGAGES 

Real Estate Investments Building Associaiions 

Estates Managed and Settled 



401 -407 Commonwealth Building 

Chestnut and 12th Streets 

Philadelphia 



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N. W. Cor. Fifteenth and Pine Streets 
PHONE SPRUCE 39-86 

Real Estate 
A gents and 
Brokers j^^ 



Special Agents (or Philadelphia 
Apartment Houses — " The Warwick," 
the " Carlisle " and the " Broadview." 
Also Special Agents for the sale and 
renting of properties at Rose Valley, 
Delaware County, Pa. 



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C T O Ft I E 

\i/. BRUCE BARRO\^ 
130 North Twelfth Street, Philadelphia 

Bell and Keystone Phones 

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AND COMPANY 

1531 Chestnut Street 
Philadelphia 



Dealers in High Class 
Suburban Properties 



Hillcrest Lawns 



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BROOKLINE 

BROOKFIELD ESTATES 

CHESTNUT RIDGE 
ESTATES 



Oakmont Station 

Haverford Township 

iligt) ^c!)ool Suburb 

" Sweet," " Quaint," " Homelike " 

Four minutes from Ardmore. Twenty- 
seven minutes from Wanamaker's store. 
High Location. Quaint Homes. 

Beautiful Lawn and Shade Trees. 
Owner. 

Joseph R. Connell 

829 Land Title Building 



BENJAMIN FINBERG 

717 \^alnut Street 

Money to Loan on First and Second Mortgages and Building Association Mortgages 
Rents. Interest and Ground Rents Collected 



Conveyancer for the following Building Associations: 

German Enterprise Building Association 
Members Building & Loan Association 
Enterprise Bnilding & Loan Association 
Local Building & Loan Association 
A. C. Patterson Building & Loan Association 
Fifth Bluecher Building Association 
Exchange Building Association of Fairhill 



Family Building & Loan Association 
Orient Building & Loan Association 
Frank P. Johnson Building & Loan Association 
Depositors Building & Loan Association 
George Egolf Building & Loan Association 
Eleventh Ward Series Building Association 
Benjamin Finberg Building & Loan Association 
Utility Building & Loan Association 



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THE GREEN TAXIES 



PULLMAN TAXICAB CO. 

SPRUCE WOOD AND SIXTEENTH STS. RACE 

60 PHILADELPHIA 34-~20 

FREE CALLS KEYSTONE PAY STATIONS 

I. M. GARFINKEL, Gen'L MgR. 



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There is hardly a phase of commercial trans- 
portation of today in which the Autocar truck does 
not prominently figure. It is built in a great vari- 
ety of body designs to meet every need. Our cars 
are used by the leading business concerns of the 
country, Dry Goods stores, Manufacturing con- 
cerns, and a host of other merchants use the Auto- 
car in the delivery and transportation of every kind 
of merchandise. Fire departments, Street Sprinkler 
departments, and Police departments of many cities 
and towns employ the Autocar in public service. 
The United States Government and Canadian 
Government use Autocars in the collection and dis- 
tribution of mail. 

In a recent test run of 1509 miles conducted 
by the United States Army to determine the value 
of motor trucks for the severest military service, the 
Autocar was the only truck which completed the 
run without any mechanical replacements. This 
proof of Autocar endurance is nothing more than 
has been shown in every line of business in which 
our cars have been employed. 

Write for our list of users, and booklet shou- 
ing stylesof body designs, and Catalog No. 4 H. C. 



Conrtinuous Efficiency 
Quvranieed 



The Autocar Company, ardmore.'pa. 

Established 1897 
Sales and Service Buildings — Never Closed 

PHILADELPHIA NEW YORK BOSTON 

23d and Market 428-430-435-437 Beacon St. and 

Streets W. 19th Street Commonwealth Ave. 











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50,000 Cars Equipped in 
Europe with this Shock Absorber 

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Because the J. M. is being silently advertised 
everywhere by the best advertisement anything can 
have — personal endorsement by word of mouth. 

The reason for this endorsement is that with a set of J. M. Shock 
Absorbers on you not only drive but you enjoy your car. 

To confirm this please ask any user. 

Prices, $25.00 to $50.00 per set 

The J. M. Shock Absorber Company 

Main Office and Factory, 210 S. 17th Street, PHILADELPHIA. PA. 



The Schwarz Wheel 

For Automobiles and 
Heavy Vehicles 

Strongest. Safest and Most Economical 

C, Spoke tenons are dovetailed and 
interlock, forming a compact, immovable 
assemblage which cannot loosen. 

C The only wheel made with positive 
spoke support. Used on all the leading 
pleasure and commercial motor cars. 

C We maintain a special repair depart- 
ment for the repair of all types of auto- 
mobile wheels. Orders large or small given 
the same careful and prompt attention. 

The Schwarz "Wheel Co, 
Frankford Philadelphia 



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By seeing Grim before you buy 

Automobile Supplies 
Tires, Horns, Tools 
Speedometers, Lead- 
ing Brands Oils and 
Grease, Caps, Gloves 
and Clothing 

Everything for the Motorist 
at Special Prices 

GRIM'S 

604-06 North Broad Street 



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Builder of 

Aluminum 
Automobile Bodies 

for any make Car 

3, 10, 12 and 14 N. 20th St. 
Philadelphia 



"EMPIRE" 

Automobile Tops and Slip Covers 



First Exclusive Auto Top Factory in Pennsylvania 



Manufacturers of high-grade tops and seat covers. 

Recovering tops and repairs promptly a specialty. 



EMPIRE AUTO TOP CO., Inc. 

207 N. Twenty-second Street - - . Philadelphia 



-T^IE HIGHEST GRADE 

A UTOMOBILE TIRES MADE 

EPUBLIC 



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DISTRIBUTORS 328 N. BROAD ST. 



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THE GREAT WHITE FLEET 



to 



Jamaica — Panama Canal 
Central and South America 

Magnificent passenger and freight steamers designed and constructed specially for ihe 
tropical trade. 

Every room is outside and in addition is cooled by fresh air from the sea forced through air 
ducts by powerful blowers. 

Many of the rooms have private connecting baths and the suites on the promenade deck 
are luxuriously furnished. 

The decks are 1 4 feet wide and I 4 laps to the mile, and are larger than will be found on 
Trans-3tlanlic steamers more than twice their size. 

One of these big white steamers sails from New York every Wednesday and Saturday. 

22-a'ay cruises to Jamaica, Panama Canal and Colombian Ports from New York every 
Wednesday at I 2 noon, Pier I 6, East River $135.00 

24-day cruises to Jamaica, Panama Canal and Costa Rica from New York every Saturday 

at 12 noon, Pier 1 6, East River $140.00 

Or you can take a 1 2 or 1 4-day trip tj Jamaica only and return at . $85.50 

Sailings from Philadelphia to Jamaica 

The popular .Admiral steamers have been entirely renovated and now carry only first-class 
passengers. The fare has been greatly reduced and is now Philadelphia to Jamaica and return 
Write for our handsomely illustrated booklet. [$60.00 

UNITED FRUIT COMPANY 

STEAMSHIP SERVICE 



Long Wharf 
BOSTON, MASS. 



17 Battery Place 
NEW YORK CITY 



Pier 5, North Wharves 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



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Mediterranean Cruises 



Ask us about 
AMERICAN LINE 

New York Plymouth — Cherbourg — Southampton 
Philadelphia — Queenstown — Liverpool 

ATLANTIC TRANSPORT LINE 

New York — London (Direct) 

LEYLAND LINE 

Boston — Liverpool 

RED STAR LINE 

New York — Dover — Antwerp 
Philadelphia — Antwerp 

WHITE STAR LINE 

New York-Ply mouth-Cherbourg-Southampton 

New York — Queenstown — Liverpool 

Boston — Queenstown — Liverpool 

Montreal — Quebec — Liverpool (Summer) 

Portland — Liverpool (Winter) 



By the largest British Steamers in this trade 

'ADRIATIC " " CEDRIC " 

November 30, January 7, January 21 
February 19 and March 5 

Four Cruises to the 
Tropics — 1913 

By the ne%vest and finest cruising ships 

' LAURENTIC " " MEGANTIC " 

West Indies — Panama Canal — South America 
Jan. 8th and 22d — 28 days each 
Feb. 8th and 22d-29 " 
$175 and upward 



For Full Particulars Address 

PASSENGER DEPARTMENT 
1319 WALNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA 



Gailey, Davis & Co. 

(Formerly Peter Wright & Sons) 

Steamship Agents 

Ship Brokers 

Chartering 



GENERAL AGENTS 

RED STAR TUGS 
Sea and Harbor Towing 

HERMAN WOLTER 
DIVING PLANT 
Submarine Diving 

316-318-320 WALNUT STREET 
PHILADELPHIA 

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Save Money on 
Drinking Water 

Quit buying bottled water 
and put a Loomis-Manning 
Water Purifier in your home, 
office or factory. 

Do away with the danger, 
annoyance and bother of 
bottled water. 

The water from our Purifier 
is freshly purified every time 
you draw a glass. It is clear, 
sparkling, free from all odor 
and taste and safe for all 
purposes. 

Loomis-Manning 
Filter Distributing Company 

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The first practical steam heating boiler made in 
this country for Buildings and Residences was 
manufactured In us. 

"We are still leading" 

Yoii arc cordially invited to our ihowroom. 

J5he H. B. SMITH CO. 



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PHILADELPHIA. PENNA. 



Mill's Water Tube Boiler 



Compliments of the 



Diinlap Printing Company 



Jumper and Cf^erry Streets 



H. HAMERTOX 



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2543-45-47 Germantown Avenue 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

Manufacturers of High Grade Refrigerators of all kinds and 

for all purposes 

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VIENNA MODEL BAKERY 

Established in 1876, at the Centennial Exposition and now located at 

21st and Arch Streets 



WM. J. MITCHELL 



GEO. W. MITCHELL 



HARRY C. MITCHELL 




The above is a reproduction of the Sheridan School situated at G and Ontario Streets. 
One of the finest and most modern schools in the country. The work was executed by 

MITCHELL BROTHERS 

Carpenters, Builders and Contractors 2125 Race Street 



HORACE LINTON 



CLARKE LINTON 




HORACE LINTON W BRO. 



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HARVEY'S 
OLDpAST 

RA7GS 



OLORFAST 



MA^T-riNG 



The Only Guaranteed Matting Produced That I« 
Fast to Sun and Water 




ALLFI-The Best All Fibre 
WOOLFI-Wool and Fibre 
LYN DO— Extra Heavy 
BESTALL -Popular Priced 

HARVEY CARPET COMPANY 

Trenton and Allegheny Avenues PHILADELPHIA 

NEW YORK SHOWROOMS, 100 Fifth Avenue 



LIPPINCOTT, JOHNSON ^ CO. 



WOOLLENS 



1021 Walnut Street 



Philadelphia 



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Union Casualty 
Insurance Company 

Third and Walnut Streets 
Philadelphia 

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The only "Home Company" 
Chartered in Pennsylvania 
writing a general line of 

Casualty Insurance 

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Liability Automobile 

Plate Glass Burglary 

Accident Health 



Hodgson & Beatty 

Card Stamping and Repeating 

for all 

Textile Fabrics 



Also Repeating for Throw Overs for Fine 
and French Index 



315 West Lehigh Avenue 



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SHOPS that closely reproduce 
the ideas of French leaders, 
from purchased models, are 
merely copyists. 

BUT the shop whose gowns 
reflect the ideals- i\\t spirit 
— of great Parisian couturieres 



is quite as much an originator 
and creator of individual modes as 
any of the noted foreign ateliers. 

^ I ^HE Wenger Shop is one of 

^ the very few in Philadelphia 

to be accorded this reputation. 



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Tailored Suits 
Riding Habits 

Gowns 

Millinery 

Lingerie 

Corsets 

1732 Chestnut Street 

PHILADELPHIA 



SCHMALZBACH 

1225 Walnut Street 

Philadelphia's 

Foremost Custom Tailor 

for Women's Suits 

Announces an 

Unusual October Reduction 

So splendidly has our business grown, that we have 
literally outgrown present quarters, and by Decem- 
ber 15th will be located in a fine, new, large store 
at 123 South 13th Street. 

During October we will be getting ready for this 
great event. Special and a very great reduction 
will prevail, so as to reduce our stock on hand. 

DURING OCTOBER 

We Will Make $65 Suits for $45 
We Will Make $100 Suits for $75 

At $45, Choice of a Beautiful Selection of 
Autumn Fabrics Will be Offered 

At $75, Choice of Velvet, and Exclusive, 
Finest Cloth Will be Offered 

Beautiful and Exclusive Evening Gowns 

Afternoon and Street Dresses and Blouses 

of Distinctive Style, will also be Offered 

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Gear Wheels 
and Gear Cutting 

of Every Description 

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Receiver and Distributor 

Fancy Table Butter 

York State Cream Cheese 

Strictly Fresh Eggs 

117 Callowhill Street 
Philadelphia 




THOMAS REILLY 

Contractor anb jiuilber 

1616 Thompson Street 

Philadelphia 

Pittsburg Office: 
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Fenders in their Lower Position 

These Fenders will prevent the wheels of an 
Automobile from running over a person or object 
lying on the ground when the fenders are in their 
lower position. 

The Fenders are adapted to he dropped auto- 
matically from the front, when a person or object 
comes in contact with the tripping rod on the for- 
ward part of the Automobile. 

The Fenders can also be dropped bv the 
operator of the car when person or object is seen in 
front of machine. 

Demonstrations GliiJly Given 
FREDERICK LILLICH, Inventor 
Manufactured by 

CHARLES H. GENTH 

I Automobile Expert 

Jefferson Machine Works 
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TELEPHONES 



BELL, KENSINGTON 41-68D 



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1432-34-36 NORTH SIXTH STREET 
PHILADELPHIA 



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Wetherill Products 

Producers of Profitable Painting: Products 

A f L^5 PAINT '^ ^'^°'^ \>i\nx and we have 
the best proposition on 
earth for progressive dealers who want to sell good 
paint — profitably. 

REFLECTOFLAT i\« washable, flat fin- 
ish, ready-mixed wall 
finish. Made in white and 14 tints— for any kind 
of wall, plaster, cement, metal or burlap. 

REFLECTO-GLOSS '^ ^ dust proof 

grease-proof inte- 
rior enamel- — especially adapted to hospitals, facto- 
ries, hotels, office buildings, etc. — all buildings 
where people are congregated and proper sanitation 
is desired. 

OUR PATRONS KNOW 

that these, like all our other products, are BEST. 
They know that the House of Wetherill has made 
the best of everything in the paint line for more 
than a century. 

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Geo. D. Wetherill & Co., Inc. 

Paint and Varnish Mfrs. 
PHILADELPHIA 



Telephone Connection 



John Galbraith 



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Mermaid Quarry 

To The FollowinK BuildinKs: 

W. W. HARRISON CASTLE 
Glensidc, Pa. 

ST. RITA HALL 

Villa Nova ColleKe 

Villa Nova. Pa. 

ST. JAMES' CHURCH 
LonK Branch, N J. 

RECTORY FOR THE 

CHURCH OF ASCENSION 

Bradley Beach. N. J. 

GATE ENTRANCE TO 

ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE 

Chestnut Hill. Pa. 

ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH 
Harvey St., Germantown. Pa. 

PERGOLA AT 

A. VAN RENSSELAER. ESQ. 

RESIDENCE 

Camp Hill. Pa. 



Mermaid Quarry : 

Mt. Airy Station, P. R. T. Co 

Chestnut Hill 



ROCKEFELLER HALL. Bryn Mawr ColleKe 
Stone Furnished From Mermaid Quarry 

JERRY O'NEILL & COMPANY 

Contractors and Building Stone 

Office: 7811 Germantown Avenue Wyoming Quarry : 

Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia ^ *"<' Wyoming Avenue 

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Bell l^hone, Tioga 57-35 D 

DONATO DELISE 

CONTRACTOR 

3556 North Seventh Street 
Philadelphia, Peiina. 



Both Phones 



Excavarion Demolition 

Stone Masonry Grading 

Concrete Work Hauling 



JAMES D.DORNEY 



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DESIGNER AND MANUFACTURER OF 

^rtisitic iHemorials; 

MAIN YARD 

SECOND STREET PIKE AND WYOMING AVENUE 

BRANCHES 

FIFTEENTH AND HAINES STS. - EIGHTEENTH AND HAINES STS- 

Entrance of Northwood Cemetery 

No less than 300 to 400 Tomb Stones, 50 to 60 Monuments and various other work to select from to 
beautify your Cemetery Lot. The right place to purchase if quality counts at moderate prices. 
No Work Too Small; None Too Large 



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Both 'Phones 



C. A. Cox's Sons 

Manufacturers and Dealers in 

Wood Burnt 
Lime 



Coal, Plaster, Hair, Cement, etc. 

Crushed Stone all sizes. Bar Sand and 
Jersey Gravel in Team or Car lots 

American Sf. below Susquehanna Ave. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

Members Builders' Exchange 

KILNS 

Cold Point Station, Plymouth Railroad 



J. H. JORDAN 



CARPENTER 

AND 

BUILDER 



31st and Oxford Streets 
Philadelphia 



Residence 
2519 Columbia Avenue 




Continental Dye Works 

T. A. HARRIS CO., Inc. 

BLEACHERS 
and DYERS 

"Woolen, W^orsted, Merino 
and Cotton 

Yarns, Hosiery and Knit 
Goods 

151 'West Thompson St., Philadelphia 



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THE HISTORICAL CONTINENTAL 
AS FAMOUS AS EVER 

Only more modern and up to the minute. 

Bohemian surroundings for persons of refinement. 

A continuous pageant of the World's Celebrities within its walls for over half a 

Chestnut and Ninth Streets, Philadelphia 

FKANK KIMBLE. Manager 



Wire for us and we'll 'Wire for you 
Estimates Furnished Phones 

Geo. Heinemann & Co. 

Electrical Engineers and Contractors 

Manufacturers of 

ELECTRIC SUPPLIES 
AND SPECIALTIES 



Expert Repairing of Dynamos and 
Motors 



500-508 W. Girard Avenue 
Philadelphia, Pa. 



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WM. H. WILSON 
& CO. 

Leading Suburban Brokers 

1318 CHESTNUT ST. 
PHILADELPHIA 



Rents and Interest 
Collected. 

Estates Managed. 

Notary Public 

Commissioner of 

Deeds for New 

Jersey 



LEWIS A. TAULANE 

C. WM. SPIESS 

Conveyancer, Real Estate and 

Insurance Broker 

S. W. Cor. 9th and Walnut Sis. 
Philadelphia 



Houses for Rent, Sale 
and Exchange in all 
portions of the City. 



Wills, and Legal Docu- 
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Refilled at Short Notice 



Manufacturers of 

Brewers', Butchers', 

Stable and Street 

Cleaning 

Brushes 

and 
Brooms 

PUSH BROOMS 

of Every Description 



John Eisenmann & Company 

Factory 

1034-36 Rising Sun Avenue 
Bell Telephone Philadelphia, Pa. 



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and Company 

The Oldest Ink Makers in the World 

In Business Continuously at 

Tenth and Lombard Streets 
Philadelphia 

Since 1804 



WOLF KLEBANSKY 

IMPORTER OF 
RUSSIAN AND SIBERIAN 

Horse Hair 

AND 

Bristles 

MANES and all kinds of ANIMAL HAIR 
supplied to the CURLED HAIR TRADE 

Also Manufacturer of DRAWN HAIR for the 

supply of brush Manufacturers and 

Hair Cloth Weavers 

Office: 246 South Third St. 
PHILADELPHIA 

FACTORY 
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GRANITE AND MARBLE WORKS 







All 
Pneumatic Tools 

MONUMENTS 

AND LOTS 

ENCLOSED WITH 

GRANITE AND 

MARBLE 

COPINGS AND 

POSTS 

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given to 
Cemetery Work 



Richmond below Orthodox Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Turner Concrete Steel Company 

ENGINEERS and CONTRACTORS 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. 

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building Construction 



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built the Concrete Construction 

Warehouse for Acme Tea Co. Bakery for Acme Tea Co. 

Warehouse for ... Weightman Estate VV' arehouse for . . . H. O. Wilbur Sons 

Factory for Jno. H. Smaltz Factory for A. Schoenhut Co. 

PublishingBuildingforJ.W. Peppered' Son Factory for . ..... . Geo. F. Lasher 

Pubhshing Bldg. for Wilmer Atkinson Co. Factory for H. C. Lea Estate 

Warehouse for Elec. Service Supphes Co. Factory for ... . John T. Lewis Bros. 



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Curers and Distributers 

"Eldorado Brand" 

Registered 



Ox, Calf, Pig and Lamb 

Tongues and Pork Hams 

Either Pickled, Smoked or Cooked 



A. M. ELLSWORTH, Inc. 

Office and Packing House 
1201-5 South Juniper Street, Philadelphia 



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S. H. KENDLE F. MELLEN KENDLE 

CONDUCTORS 



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GENERAL 
CONTRACTOR 



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ESTABLISHED 1880 

("aiu.i-; Com: "Nklson" I'lirr \, 

SHEIP & VANDEGRIFT, Inc. 

Lumber and Mill Work Cigar Boxes 



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Extending Through to Fifth Street 
PHILADELPHIA 



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BOXES 



Hardwoods 
Poplar and Bass 

Parquetry Flooring 

Dimension Stock 

Mouldings 

Electrotype Blocking 



MUSIC-MASTER 

WOOD HORNS 



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shore, or in the city parks. The above group shows a party of enthusiasts ready for a gallop, in the Poconos at Buck Hill 
Falls Inn, where the riding school each summer is supplied with horses from the Manheim Stables, of Germantown. 

In the Manheim Stables will be found everything in the way of horses and carriages that could be desired by the most 
fastidious. Well-trained saddle horses, safe and stylish driving horses, carriages for weddings and receptions, and coupes 
for calling and shopping may be had at any time. 

Lessons in riding are given in class or private. Only one or two lessons need be taken in the ring, and the others may 
be enjoyed along the beautiful W'issahickon, which is reached in ten minutes from the Manheim Stables. 

Msitors to the Manheim Stables are always welcome, and a half hour there will be well spent, and will prove the 
statement that everything in the stables is first class and well-appointed. 

JOHN A. FOLEY 

MANHEIM STABLES AND RIDING ACADEMY 
5434 Germantown Avenue, (Opposite Church Lane) Germantown 

Bell Phone. Gtn. 14-31 



The 

Moore & White 

Company 

Builders of 

Paper Mill Machinery 

Friction Clutches 

Variable Speed 
Changes 

Philadelphia, U. S. A. 



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Card Stamping and Repeating 
For All Textile Fabrics 



BRUSSELS AND WILTON CARDS 
CUT ON PLATE MACHINE 

BLANK CARDS CUT TO ORDER 
ANY SIZE 

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MESSRS. SHREVE &. ADAMS 

86 Leonard Street - - New York City 



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W. V. Smalley 

Wool and Wool Waste 
and Paper Stock 



Commission 
Mixing and Dusting 



2107 East Somerset Street 
Philadelphia 



WM. R. KREEGER H. ALLAN KREEGER 



Kree^er & Connolly 



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Philadelphia 



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Crochet Lace Edgings 

Torchon Laces 

Tapes, Braids, Threads 
Yarns 

229 Church Street 231 
Philadelphia 

New York Address 
366 Broadway, Room 912 



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WORSTED YARN 
SPINNERS 

Weaving Yarns Knitting Yarns 



2023 Naudain Street, Philadelphia 



HALKETT, ROGERS & CO. 

Incorporated 



Awning Stripes 

COTTON DUCK 
AND DRILLS 

Canvas Goods 



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Philadelphia 



A. BERGMAN 



Manufacturer of Fine 

Cardigan Jackets 
and Sweater Coats 



Pastorious and Osceola Streets 
Germantown, Phila., Pa. 



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Vt^e PHOTOGRAPH 
ANYTHING 
ANYTIME 
ANYWHERE 

Call Filbert 3601-3602 



Special Attention 
Given to 

RESIDENCES 
WEDDINGS 
and GROUPS 



Banquet and Social 

Functions 

Photographed 

by 

Smokeless 

Artificial Lighting 



William H. Rau 

Official Photographer 



258 S. Ca.nAaLC Street 



PhilaLdelphiB^, Pa^. 



PABST & CO. 

Window 
Shade Cloth 

That Stands the Test of Time 



Superior 
Liberty Bell 
Shade Cloth 

Made in Two 
Ciracies : 
Cambric 
and Opaque 



Trade Mark 




Copyrighted 



Impoiters of 
King's 
Scotch 
Hollands 

Joliliers of 
Bancroft 
Sunfast and 
Lonsdale 
Hollands 



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Full Line of Curtain Poles, Shade 
Fringes and Upholsterers' Hardware 

Offices: 141-147 N. 12th Street 

Factory : 22d and Allegheny Avenue 

PHILADELPHIA 




C. R. Carver Company 

Manufacturers of 
AUTOMATIC 

Stamping and Embossing Presses 

20th and Clearfield Sts.. Philadelphia, Pa. 



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and Hosiery Yarns ^ s^ 

Fast Colors for Upholstery, 
Chenille and Silkline Trade 



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Westmoreland and Tulip Streets 

Philadelphia 

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french dye 



FRENCH SPINNLNG 

MEN'S WEAR 
FRENCH FINISH 




Leiper Street and Adams Avenue, Frankford, Philadelphia 

Our mill started in 1905 with 30 broad looms. We have at present 250 broad looms. 
The success of the company is due to the special attention and care, which is given 
to our weaving and finishing. 



Bell Phone 



T. C. KREWSON 

Manufacturer of 

LADDERS 



Extension Ladders 
Sectional Ladders 



Swinging Stages 
Jacks and Hods 



801-803 Maser Street 
Philadelphia, Pa. 



Bell. Walnut 2872 



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HASSELBERG BROS. 

SIGNS 

AND LETTERING 

Wood, Wire, Brass, Electric and 
Illuminated Signs 

1004 Moravian Street, Philadelphia 

lOlh Street above Walnut 



WOLF & CO. 

Callowhill, Carlton and Twelfth Streets 

Philadelphia, Pa. 



Art Calendars, Pictorial 

Advertising Hangers, Inlaid 

Lettered Signs, Interesting Booklets 

Box Tops, Leather, Cutlery 

and Cardboard Novelties. 



JOHN W. CARSON 

Dyer of 
Woolen, Worsted, Cotton and Jute 

YARNS 

Glenwood Ave. below Second St- 
Philadelphia 

Stock Fully Insured 



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F. P. \^oll £? Co. 

Manufacturers of 

Curled Hair, Brush and 
Bedding Supplies 

Office and Factory 
Church and Tacony Sts. Frankford. Pa. 

Cable Address. Frewoll. Philadelphia 
A. B. C. Code. 5th Edition. Lieber's Code 



R. L. AHLES 

President 
J. W. AHLES 

Treasurer 



W. L. WRIGHT 

Vice President 
W. J. OGDEN 

Secretary 



Tioga 
Steel & Iron Company 

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Office and Works 

Fifty-Second and Gray's Avenue 
Philadelphia, Pa. 



The Liverpool and London 
and Globe Ins. Co., Ltd. 

The Globe Indemnity Co. 

WM. E. BATES, General Agent 

331-337 Walnut Street 

Philadelphia 



SMEDLEY BROS. CO. 

Manufacturers and Dealers in 

LUMBER and 
MILL \^ORK 

Frankford, Phila., Pa. 
Ridgway Refrigerator Co. 

5th and Tioga Streets 

Philadelphia, Pa. 
Builders of 

Refrigerators & Store Fixtures 

Also for Clubs, Institutions & Residences 

E. B. ATKINS, Mgr. 
Both Phones 

OFFICIAL CONTRACTORS 

D. C. Humphrys Co. 

SCENIC DISPLAYS 



%ir 913 Arch Street s^sTa 



Decorations, Banners, Flags, 
Signs, Tents and Covers 



The History of Elastic Fabrics 

shows the "Best Made" Braids, 

Cords and Webbing are made by 

Christ Bros. Mfg. Co. 

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done by us 

WE BOTH LOSE 



GEORGE H BUCHANAN COMPANY 418-422 SANSON! STREET, PHILADELPHIA 

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and Arm Bands 

1208-10-12-14-16 Race Street 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

Bernhard Ernst Bros. 

Curers and Packers of all kinds of 

SMOKED. DRIED AND SAT.T 

FISH 

Boneless Ham, Boiled Ham, Boiled Corn 
Beef, Tenders and Boiled Tongue 

Under U. S. Inspection 

2920 NORTH SIXTH ST. 

PHILADELPHIA 



Sprague 
Worsted Mills 

Manufacturers of 

Men's Wear and 
Dress Goods 

Wister Station, Germantown 
Philadelphia 



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Established Over 100 Years 



HORACE M. SINER 



CHARLES B. SINER 



H. M. & C B. SINER 

BRICK MANUFACTURERS 

Red Building Brick a Specialty ^ 

FRANKFORD, PHILADELPHIA 




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Under the Hat of Penn 



The good ship "Welcome," that brought 
WilHam Penn to this city and province two 
hundred and thirty years ago, brought, like- 
wise, a printing press and an outfit of type. 

With this early recognition of the value of 
the printed page, it is only natural that there 
should follow in the same community the 
first paper mill, the first type foundry and 
the first advertising agency in America. 
Nor should it either be thought strange that 
right here under the hat of Penn, in this old 
Quaker town — the staunchest city in America 
— there should be found today the largest 
advertising business in the world, conducted 
on the Philadelphia idea — "Keeping Ever- 
lasting At It Brings Success." 

In order to be successful, it always has 
been and always will be necessary for a busi- 
ness man to tell others what he has or what 
he is doing. Whatever the method employed, 
such telling is advertising. It 
may be a conversation, a 
letter, a show window, ^^ *^*0V " '"^ 
a sign, a poster, a car 
card, a catalog, a cir- 
cular or a sample, as 
the needs of the case 
may dictate, but 
where a business 
announcement is in- 
tended for many peo- 
ple whose address is 
unknown and whose time 



is occupied, the best way to inform them is 
the way in which they get most of their other 
information — in the way you are now getting 
this — by means of the printed page. 

The firm of N. W, Ayer & Son was or- 
ganized in April, 1869— forty-three years 
ago — by two men who invested two hundred 
and fifty dollars. Today it has three hundred 
and forty-five trained helpers. In ten years 
the firm was doing the largest business in its 
line — a position it has maintained ever since. 
There is but one explanation for this^they 
have made it pay business men to advertise. 

Our business is composed of many littles 
and many littles that have grown big. We 
investigate conditions, give counsel, furnish 
plans, select mediums, purchase space, pre- 
pare advertisements, register the service 
given and care for all other details of News- 
paper, Magazine, Street Car 
and Outdoor advertising. 

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proven the vestil)ule 
to many a substantial 
advertising success. We 
have a welcome for you; 
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We have just moved into our new seven -story building, located on West 
Washington Square, Philadelphia's new publishing center. Twenty- 
four years ago, when the business was founded, our floor space was less 
than 1000 square feet. Our new home gives us over 30,000 s(]uare feet 
and is by far the largest and best ecjuipped plant in existence devoted 
exclusively to the publishing of medical books. 

It is an interesting fact that Philadelphia owes its reputation as a medi- 
cal center largely to a publisher. It was through the efforts of Benjamin 
Franklin that the old "Academy," that stood at Fourth and Arch 
Streets, was founded. Here, in 1765, was established the first Medical 
School' on this Continent and from this grew the present Medical Depart- 
ment of the University of Pennsylvania. It is eminently fitting, therefore, 
that Washington Square, with its many historic associations of Franklin 
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